If the Braves are right about both the trade value of pitchers and in their assessments of the prospects they’ve acquired, they eventually will have a lot assets to offer in trades for other needs.
As it stands now their system is even more top-heavy with pitchers after the Braves used the first two days of the Major League Baseball amateur draft to add more of them. The Braves drafted pitchers with the first three of their eight total picks on Friday, a day after they selected pitchers with three of their four picks.
On the draft’s second day the Braves selected University of Louisville left-hander Drew Harrington (No.