Luke Waddell is one of the system’s forgotten prospects and in all of the excitement of the 2022 season, he was hit with an injury and stayed on the backburner all season. Despite good performance at the Double-A level, Waddell hasn’t gotten much mention in any conversation about the Braves system and that isn’t wholly fair to him.
Preseason report card
The Atlanta Braves drafted Luke Waddell out of Georgia Tech with their fifth-round pick in 2021, and he made a solid professional debut with Rome that season. Mostly, he was carried by the most absurd week of his career in which he won Player of the Week for the entirety of minor league baseball with a 1.