The Atlanta Braves completed Day 2 of the MLB Draft by taking five more pitchers among eight picks on Monday. Atlanta has taken a right-handed pitcher with eight of their first 11 picks so far. Despite loading up on pitchers, Braves assistant director of amateur scouting Ronit Shah insisted that it wasn’t necessarily a strategy that they had coming into the draft.
“You’re always looking for arms,” Shah said after Day 2. “You can never have enough pitching, but kind of like we talked about yesterday, just taking the best players on the board.