Last week, we covered the prospect hitters off to the best starts across the Minor Leagues. Next up: the pitchers.
No more guessing at how a mid-90s fastball will play at a certain level or if a plus slider will miss enough bats to be effective. We have one month
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Braves Minor League Spring Training report
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Atlanta s youth movement in the outfield has been well-documented. Ronald Acuña Jr. is already one of the best players in baseball, and he’s just 23. Top prospect Cristian Pache, 22, is scuffling a bit in the big leagues, but is just establishing himself. A step behind is Braves’ No. 2 prospect Drew Waters, also 22 years old, who should get a chance to show what he can do at some point soon.
In a perfect world, that assembly of talent will be roaming the outfield in Atlanta for a long time. But just in case, there are more waves of young outfielders beginning to form. There’s Trey Harris and Justin Dean, 2018 draftees from the college ranks with some interesting tools, but a rung or two below them are a pair of high school draftees from the class of 2019 starting to make some noise.
If the Cubs make July trades, what could they get for Kris Bryant?
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Leading up to the 2020 season, one of the defaults for a Kris Bryant trade to the Braves was for the Cubs to get Austin Riley in return. After all, Riley had years of valued service time to go. Also, he hadn’t proven his salt yet. For decades, trading a suspect for a veteran has been all the rage. The Cubs took on Cole Liniak as the player-to-be-named-later in the Rod Beck trade with the Red Sox in 1999. Back then, acquiring a player near MLB was often the goal. Since last year’s World Series concluded, six 2020 MLB draft picks have been traded, including Owen Caissie to the Cubs. Recent precedent indicates distance from MLB is tolerable.
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