You don’t often see a Major League Baseball team calling up their top Minor League prospects late in the season in the middle of a pennant race. Yet, the Atlanta Braves have done exactly that.
On Wednesday morning, the Braves announced that 21-year-old Vaughn Grissom--one of their highest rated prospects-- will make his debut with the team Wednesday in Boston against the Red Sox.
Grissom will be heading north after starting this season with Atlanta’s top Single-A team in Rome. He was promoted in July to Double-A Mississippi, where he’s played in only 22 games.