The Atlanta Braves were shut out of Baseball America’s Top 100 prospect list for the first ever. However, they do have one prospect that could bust through at some point in 2023. BA released a group of 10 prospects that could crack the list at some point this season and Atlanta’s 2022 first round pick Owen Murphy made the cut.
Murphy, who ranks No. 2 on the Braves’ list behind fellow righty AJ Smith-Shawver, is a candidate to break on through in 2023. Murphy is an athletic righty with a low-90s, high-spin fastball, a nasty curveball and slider whose shape the Braves are working to alter into more of the version used to great effect by breakout starter Spencer Strider.