This past weekend the Gwinnett Stripers came to Scranton Wilkes-Barre to take on the Railriders, just days after the Braves promoted a quartet of top prospects from Mississippi to Gwinnett. That quartet - Cristian Pache, Ian Anderson, Drew Waters, and Tucker Davidson - had been having great seasons in Double A, but now they are one step away from Atlanta.
So with Gwinnett in my hometown, it meant a chance to get a first in-person look at all four of these prospects as I had missed Waters by two days in the GCL during the Talking Chop Minor League Team trip to Orlando in 2017 (Waters and Kevin Maitan were promoted on a Saturday night from the GCL to Danville, with us in town for Monday’s game).