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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

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Braves with the most prospects on Baseball America's fresh list heading into the 2018 season, including the chart topper:

Ronald Acuna - 1
Luiz Gohara - 23
Mike Soroka - 27
Kyle Wright - 34
Ian Anderson - 42
Austin Riley - 54
Kolby Allard - 65
Max Fried - 72
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Post#263 » by HMFFL » Wed Jan 24, 2018 7:51 am

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Maybe I will make it out to a minor league game this coming season to check some of the talent out.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#264 » by ATL Boy » Sat Jan 27, 2018 3:25 pm

HMFFL wrote:^
Maybe I will make it out to a minor league game this coming season to check some of the talent out.

Gwinnett will be the place to be when our pitching prospects get called up there. Tbh I would've taken going to a G-Braves game over going to see the major league team these past couple of seasons.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#265 » by HMFFL » Sat Jan 27, 2018 7:50 pm

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HMFFL wrote:^
Maybe I will make it out to a minor league game this coming season to check some of the talent out.

Gwinnett will be the place to be when our pitching prospects get called up there. Tbh I would've taken going to a G-Braves game over going to see the major league team these past couple of seasons.


I will make a better effort this coming season.
I travel with my job so my time is limited and I stay in Vegas a lot.
I heard a soccer team will also share the field with the Gwinnett Braves. That should be interesting.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#266 » by HMFFL » Fri Feb 9, 2018 6:14 am

Braves’ 7th-round draft pick hit with PED suspension



Reliever Landon Hughes, a Marietta native who was the Braves’ seventh-round pick in last year’s June draft, was hit with a 68-game suspension Thursday after testing positive for a performance-enhancing substance.

The right-hander was released by the Braves two weeks ago. http://www.ajc.com/sports/baseball/braves-7th-round-draft-pick-hit-with-ped-suspension/JpExqRVfSY8oIfjWjsP9eJ/
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#267 » by dms269 » Sat Apr 14, 2018 1:54 am

Went to the home opener last night.

Extra innings is interesting. They give you a runner on 2nd to start the inning.

We can't hit the ball. So many double-plays.

Soroka looked good. Pen is bad...really bad.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#268 » by HMFFL » Thu Apr 19, 2018 6:20 pm

Former Toronto slugger Jose Bautista has signed a minor league contract with us.
Going from 18 million last season to being unsigned in free agency.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#269 » by graymule » Fri May 4, 2018 11:52 am

:D

Where did all these young Braves, now on the roster and wrecking havoc come from? As the topic heading says,
"It's all about the Minor Leagues."

Atlanta went from having a poor Minor League system to one of the very best. Now, it's paying off. A great
example was this week when the three youngest players in the major leagues were all Braves and all three
were on the starting nine - - And Atlanta won the game!

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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#270 » by Ruzious » Fri May 4, 2018 1:28 pm

graymule wrote::D

Where did all these young Braves, now on the roster and wrecking havoc come from? As the topic heading says,
"It's all about the Minor Leagues."

Atlanta went from having a poor Minor League system to one of the very best. Now, it's paying off. A great
example was this week when the three youngest players in the major leagues were all Braves and all three
were on the starting nine - - And Atlanta won the game!

:nod: ---- :D

When Albies and Acuna homered together, they were the youngest teammates to do so in the same game in the Majors since another Atlanta pair: Bob Horner and... Glenn Hubbard in 1978. These 2 are absurdly good for their ages - they both could be all-stars this year - how crazy is that? Ok, maybe I'm jumping the gun on Acuna... maybe. And pitching prospects... not sure an organization (except maybe for the Braves when they had Smoltz, Glavine, and Steve Avery) has had so many good ones at once. The best are yet to come to Atlanta.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#271 » by Ruzious » Mon May 14, 2018 3:26 pm

Holy spit performances by Austin Riley and Koby Allard for AAA Gwinnett in their 10-0 victory yesterday. http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?gid=2018_05_13_noraaa_gwiaaa_1&t=g_box&sid=milb
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Post#273 » by Ruzious » Mon Jun 4, 2018 3:05 pm

Braves have to be real happy with CFer Drew Waters, their 19 year old former 2nd round pick. He tore it up in May at Rome OPSing 1.054. For the season, he's hitting .305/.360/.503/.923 and has 23 extra base hits in 150 at bats - along with 8 steals. He has a bit of a SO problem, but I don't think it's any worse than Acuna's or Riley's. If he keeps it up, he'll likely get a promotion to high A Florida this season - and he'll be 19 all season. If he does well there this year, he will fly up the prospect lists. But even if that doesn't happen this year, he'll still likely be ahead of schedule. And with the 2018 draft starting today, we can just hope to do as well in the 2nd round.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#275 » by Ruzious » Wed Jun 13, 2018 3:27 pm

Fried's starting for Gwinnett tonight. I'm thinking it's as much to impress other teams at this point. I just can't see him ever making the Atlanta rotation, and he's been one of the Braves' highest rated prospects for several years now. At 24, it's not too late to hopefully have some good outings to impress another team that can give him an extended look in their MLB rotation. And the Braves can include him in a trade package.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#276 » by Ruzious » Thu Jun 14, 2018 7:55 pm

And Fried did indeed have a very nice game with 11 K's to zero walks and 3 hits in 7 innings - giving up 1 run. Another couple of games like that, and the lefty will have significant trade value.

Btw, looks like the Braves have a dramatically improving 3rd base prospect - Jean Carlos Encarncacion - don't know if he's related to former all-star 3rd baseman Juan Encarnacion. He's on a tear at Rome. That team has 3 real good positional prospects if you include him: Encarnacion (20), catcher William Contreras (20), and CFer Drew Waters (19). And some are high on OFer Israel Wilson (20), 2nd baseman Derian Cruz (19), and catcher Drew Lugbauer (21).
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#277 » by ATL Boy » Sat Jun 16, 2018 12:51 pm

I actually still like Fried, but turning him into trade bait seems like the best course of action for the team. Move him and get a cost controlled bullpen arm.
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Re: It's All About The Minor Leagues 

Post#278 » by Ruzious » Mon Jun 18, 2018 8:32 pm

ATL Boy wrote:I actually still like Fried, but turning him into trade bait seems like the best course of action for the team. Move him and get a cost controlled bullpen arm.

Yeah, Braves pitching has been great, but I'd feel better down the stretch if they had another dependable late inning arm in the bullpen.
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