As Fangraphs’ Prospect Week continues, Dan Szymborski’s ZiPS projection system has chimed in with its own list of Top 100 prospects. You can read the full article here: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/zips-2021-top-100-prospects.
Braves’ prospects making the list are:
- Ian Anderson at #5 overall. Anderson’s sparkling debut no doubt punted him up towards the top of the list. He’s also almost-not-a-prospect, but I guess since he retains his rookie eligibility for the start of the season, he’s fair game for the list.
- Cristian Pache at #18 overall. Minor league defense is very hard to translate into major league defense, and the immediate outlooks on Pache offensively aren’t very high, but it’s somewhat nice that a statistics-based model still sees Pache as delivering a boatload of career value.