With the Minor League Baseball season officially cancelled, let’s rev up the old Prospect Retrospect series and take a look at one of the Atlanta Braves’ brightest young stars of the 2000s.
First, in case you don’t remember the series, take a look back at previous Prospect Retrospects we did earlier this season.
Heyward’s rise to the big leagues was certainly not void of any fanfare, but it all started in high school. Pretty much a hometown kid, Heyward hailed from Henry County not far down I-85 from Turner Field.