It’s the perennial question for every team: prospects or parades? Which members of your future are you willing to consider seeing thrive on other clubs in order for your team to win? The Atlanta Braves are now facing these questions head-on… and getting correct answers is vital for their future.
First – in case you might have missed it – here are the write-ups: a report on all 125 prospects in the Braves’ system… and other than the Braves themselves, nobody has a list this deep.
First, let’s contrast the Top 30 on MLB Pipeline to those on Ben’s chart along with [Ben’s Ranking]:
- 1 Mike Soroka RHP [1]
- 2 Kyle Wright RHP [6]
- 3 Ian Anderson RHP [2]
- 4 Touki Toussaint RHP [4]
- 5 Austin Riley 3B [8]
- 6 Cristian Pache CF/OF [3]
- 7 Luiz Gohara LHP [9]
- 8 Drew Waters OF [10]
- 9 Kolby Allard LHP [11]
- 10 Bryse Wilson RHP [7]
- 11 Joey Wentz LHP [14]
- 12 Kyle Muller LHP [12]
- 13 William Contreras C [5]
- 14 Greson Jenista OF [13]
- 15 Tristen Beck RHP [15]
- 16 Trey Riley RHP [23]
- 17 Derian Cruz 2B [42]
- 18 Freddy Tarnok RHP [17]
- 19 Thomas Burrows LHP [30]
- 20 Huascar Ynoa RHP [16]
- 21 Patrick Weigel RHP [18]
- 22 Travis Demeritte OF [33]
- 23 Isranel Wilson OF [22]
- 24 Tucker Davidson LHP [29]
- 25 Jasseel De La Cruz RHP [27]
- 26 Ricardo Sanchez LHP [21]
- 27 Alex Jackson C [26]
- 28 Josh Graham RHP [44]
- 29 Jacob Webb RHP [34]
- 30 Drew Lugbauer C [40]
Overall, the MLB Pipeline seems to have an improved list from what they’ve produced for the Braves over the past couple of years, and they do – at least – seem to recognize the depth of the system.