As we do every year here at Talking Chop, I've taken all of the top-25 prospect list submissions and averaged them into one combined list that will server as the official Talking Chop top-25 Braves prospects for 2009. Here is the list:
1 Jason Heyward, OF
2 Tommy Hanson, RHP
3 Jordan Schafer, OF
4 Freddie Freeman, 1B
5 Tyler Flowers, C
6 Cole Rohrbough, LHP
7 Gorkys Hernandez, OF
8 Jeff Locke, LHP
9 Kris Medlen, RHP
10 Julio Teheran, LHP
11 Jon Gilmore, 3B
12 Brandon Hicks, SS
13 Cody Johnson, OF
14 Craig Kimbrel, RHP
15 Eric Campbell, 3B
16 Brett DeVall, LHP
17 Edgar Osuna, LHP
18 Todd Redmond, RHP
19 Brent Lillibridge, SS
19 Kala Ka'aihue, 1B
21 Travis Jones, 2B
22 Scott Diamond, LHP
23 Zeke Spruill, RHP
24 Eric Cordier, RHP
25 James Parr, RHP
25 Steve Evarts, LHP
Good work by everyone who participated by submitting their top-25. I like this approach as it usually gets rid of the outliers in individual's lists and gives a better overall picture of what people think of the prospects in our system.
The complete breakdown is after the jump...