Braves general manager John Coppolella and his scouting department have never hesitated to put their draft strategy on display, a laser-focused drive to win baseball’s arms race by the end of the decade and beyond.
“You can never have enough pitching. We’ll keep taking pitching. In the draft this year, I would expect pitching,” Coppolella said back in spring training before his front office tabbed Vanderbilt ace Kyle Wright with the No. 5 overall pick in the 2017 draft. “A lot of that bats we get in the foreign market. A lot of the arms we get in the draft.