The Atlanta Braves developed a number of excellent young arms during their excellent run of success in the 1990s and 2000s, often serving in the back of the rotation to begin, but few worked their way up the rotation the way Kevin Millwood did.
Millwood was an 11th round pick in 1993 out of high school in North Carolina. He loved basketball and would miss the beginning of baseball season each year, meaning he was plenty raw at the end of high school, not expecting to be drafted due to that.
Because he was so raw, Millwood really did not stand out in his minor league career until his final season, and even then only in the second half of that season once he was promoted to AAA, when he went on a 9-start tear (1.