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The Braves have more pitching bubbling up through their system.
The Braves have more pitching bubbling up through their system.
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No team seems to put more effort and care into making sure their organization is full of good guys than our beloved Atlanta Braves.
No team seems to put more effort and care into making sure their organization is full of good guys than our beloved Atlanta Braves.
The Braves have long been a pitching rich organization, and their top 5 prospects are all pitchers, including their top prospect from last season, their last two 1st round picks, this year's 2nd rounder, and a top international signee.
Prospects 6-10 include a pair of promising shortstops, and defensively gifted but offensively raw catcher, the Braves best Minor League pitcher in 2012, and an older slugger who does nothing but hurt baseballs.
Prospects 11 through 15 include a pair of 2nd round draft picks, a converted reliever with serious strikeout stuff, a defensively challenged third baseman with tantalizingly frustrating talent, and a complete masher who lacks a defensive home.
Prospects 16-20 include a promising swingman pitcher, a slugging second baseman, a first baseman who looks like a draft day steal, a Gold Glove third baseman, and an infielder who struggled this season.
Prospects 21 through 25 include a pair of pitchers recently added to the Braves 40 man roster, a former supplemental 1st round draft pick, and a pair of talented international teenage pitchers.
Organizations, media, and fans alike will spend hours upon hours debating over who the best prospects are, but there will always be a handful of players who seem to come out of nowhere to excel in the Major Leagues.
The Braves not only have the best closer in the game in Craig Kimbrel, but they have two of the best setup men in the game in Eric O'Flaherty and Jonny Venters. Still, you can never have enough relievers.
From Warren Span to Tom Glavine, the Braves have a history of talented lefties getting the most out of ordinary stuff, and several prospects currently in the organization look poised to continue that tradition.
The modern success of the Atlanta Braves has been founded on outstanding starting pitching and the team's farm system has no intention of letting that tradition die out any time soon.
Starting pitching has long been an area of strength for the Atlanta Braves and that trend doesn't seem likely to end any time soon. The Braves have a great crop of right handed starting pitchers coming up the pipeline.
Baseball prospect guru John Sickels releases his top-20 Braves prospects for 2013.
The Braves are set in right field for the foreseeable future after young star Jason Heyward's stellar 2012 campaign that culminated with him earning a Gold Glove this week, but the rest of the outfield is in flux.
After a fine sophomore season, Freddie Freeman has firmly implanted himself as Atlanta's first baseman of both the present and the future, but the future is nowhere near as clear across the diamond.
The Braves are currently set up the middle of their infield, with a phenomenal fielder and rapidly developing hitter in Andrelton Simmons, and an average on his best days defender who is maddeningly inconsistent at the plate in Dan Uggla.
With Brian McCann firmly entrenched at the position, the Atlanta Braves haven't had to worry about having a catcher waiting in the wings, but a rough 2012 season for McCann suddenly has Braves fans wondering what's on the farm.
The Braves are flush with talent, even at the lowest level of their minor league ladder.
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