Has it been announced yet where each prospect is starting the season?
I saw Soroka is starting a AA, but I would like to know about everyone else with a couple key ones (Fried, Acuna, Riley, AJackson)
Is there a central location for me to look.
Has it been announced yet where each prospect is starting the season?
I saw Soroka is starting a AA, but I would like to know about everyone else with a couple key ones (Fried, Acuna, Riley, AJackson)
Is there a central location for me to look.
Not usually, you'll just find out when they announce rosters.
But most should be pretty straightforward. The only ones I could see as interesting are Acuna (probably A+, could be AA), Fried (probably AA but we'll see), and Davidson (should repeat A+).
Riley and Jackson will almost certainly be A+.
Fried is listed on Miss's roster. It's not complete, but there are some new additionsOriginally Posted by smootness
http://www.milb.com/roster/index.jsp?sid=t430
Kolby Allard just tweeted that he's off to Mississippi?
So Mississippi is going to be Fried, Allard, Soroka, Weigel, Mader.
That looks alot like Rome last year.
Who does this leave at A+?
Touki, Gohara, Sanchez, ??
Other than Touki, that seems pretty weak.
Hmmm, not as optimistic about Allard going to AA as I am Soroka. I guess we believe in them that much, but it seems like Allard hasn't had much time in the minors yet and would do well from at least some time in A+.
Gohara is widely considered a superior prospect to Touki, so I wouldn't go that far. I'd have to assume Harrington moves up to clear up the Rome logjam and Withrow or Mader round out the rotation. Perhaps if Harrington starts in Rome we could send Biddle to Florida to start/rehab.
bravesguy (03-31-2017)
Fried's twitter shows a pictures of him and Allard saying they are both off to Mississippi
Get off my lawn!
Seems our FO thinks very highly of our AA pitching coach
Or very little of our Florida pitching coach.
It's Derrick Lewis, who was at Carolina last year. His resume tells you the Braves trust him in a big way:
2004-2007 Pitching coach GCL Braves
2008-2010 Pitching coach Danville Braves
2011-2013 Pitching coach Rome Braves
2014 Pitching coach Lynchburg Hillcats
2015-2016 Pitching coach Carolina Mudcats
Allard wasn't dominant his first go round in Rome. Maybe that had more to do with being rusty, but he got demoted to Danville pretty quickly last year.
From what I remember is that he was slotted go to Danville the whole time, but they wanted to get him some action and Danville starts their season later than Rome if I recall correctly.... so they threw him into Rome for a couple starts before Danville's season started
He was dominant at the end.
Look the FO seems to be consistent that they are going to push guys. So far it seems to have worked out. Ruiz's promotion seemed to be the worst and he did well.
I think the FO thinks that pushing guys and playing them early will give them a good reputation with players and agents. I don't know if that is really how they feel or if that will work. But that is an impression I get. They'll tell international guys that if you earn it you could be in the bigs at 20 like Ozzie. They'll tell drafted players that if you sign with us we'll put you in the show if you earn it. Probably won't amount to much but it seems to be a trend.
Plus....we know that 3 of our starting 5 won't be here next year. You never know with injuries. Why not find out what these kids can do?
I'm high on both Allard and Soroka, but neither of them showed the kind of dominance last year that would imo justify this sort of aggressive move.
Like you I am high on Allard and Soroka, I've liked them both from the start but this surprised me. This seems a rather aggressive move and I hope it doesn't do any harm.
If we have some arms that don't progress as well as we hoped does that change the FO way of thinking going into the draft? Maybe go after a college arm?
Allard has 60 innings in full season ball. Basing a promotion to Double A for a 19-year-old on that seems really strange to me.
I don't see the big deal. If allard doesn't pitch well at Mississippi, just drop em down then like last season
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