TUESDAY MINORS THREAD 8/8 ... Trio combine for Danville no-hitter!

[bravesfanMatt]

GoHard struggling.. Acuna K'ing.. Swanson traded.. my world is crashing..

[thewupk]

GoHard struggling.. Acuna K'ing.. Swanson traded.. my world is crashing..

You could always become a Nats fan

[bravesfanMatt]

You could always become a Nats fan

you are dead to me now.

[msstate7]

Wilson...
6.0 ip. 2 h 0 er 1 bb 10 k

[thethe]

Wilson...
6.0 ip. 2 h 0 er 1 bb 10 k

One of my two breakout picks.

He would be top 5 in most systems in baseball.

[Deester11]

you are dead to me now.

Ewwww

[Tapate50]

you are dead to me now.

Winter is coming

[Russ2dollas]

The Braves say that a player tells them when he ready. Acuña has nothing more to prove much to my chagrin. Can we sit him for the rest of the year and two weeks of next?

Yes. He's 19 and still only a year and a half of minor league at bats. No need to add him to the 49 man.

Stupid to bring him up

[clvclv]

Sure sucks that the organization kept drafting Pitchers last year - surely they'd have gotten much better value if they'd have picked hitters instead of Wentz and Wilson.

[zbhargrove]

Sure sucks that the organization kept drafting Pitchers last year - surely they'd have gotten much better value if they'd have picked hitters instead of Wentz and Wilson.

Yeah also good thing we didn't draft Lewis who's putting up a paltry .900+ OPS in A+ ball. Oh wait...

[Southcack77]

Don't know where else to ask but the 2016 draft is being discussed here:

Whatever happened to Matt Rowland, the overslot high school pitcher that the Braves took with their first day three pick. I don't see any accumulated stats, but he did sign. I assume injury and/or off field trouble. Anyone know?

He was another high upside arm in that draft class.

Ian Anderson 3.04 FIP 11.2k/9 4.76 BB/9 Rome A

Joey Wentz 2.57 FIP 10.4 k/9 2.77 bb/9 Rome A

Kyle Muller 4.72 FIP 8.03 k/9 3.65 bb/9 Danville

Drew Harrington 3.11 FIP 7.07k/9 2.83 bb/9 Florida A+

Bryce Wilson 3.08 FIP 9.13 k/9 2.08 bb/9 Rome A

Jeremy Walker 3.79 FIP 6.81 k/9 2.19 bb/9 Rome A

[clvclv]

Yeah also good thing we didn't draft Lewis who's putting up a paltry .900+ OPS in A+ ball. Oh wait...

Maybe we could trade Acuna for him!!!

I kid, I kid!!!

I get that so many people are so down on the position players in our system (I honestly do), but at some point they've also got to give the brass at least a little credit. They've built as impressive a stable of minor league arms in recent memory (and maybe an outside shot at ever), and even though they didn't draft them apparently knew what they had in Albies and Acuna. Acuna's meteoric rise through the system tells me that THEY knew they had a potential superstar OF on their hands already when they kept stockpiling arms - whether the Top 100 lists reflected it or not. While there's going to be some attrition, the Braves simply have too many arms NOT to have at least a 60% homegrown (and inexpensive) rotation for a good while.

I know it's a broken record, but you've always been able and always will be able to trade arms to get bats IF you have them. Now that some of the arms are starting to sort themselves out, I wouldn't think twice about packaging an arm or two to go get Lewis or Derek Fisher and pair one of them with Ender and Acuna to give us an OF that would be comparable to anybody's in 2019, but I have absolutely no regrets about the choice to go get all this pitching.

[zbhargrove]

Don't know where else to ask but the 2016 draft is being discussed here:

Whatever happened to Matt Rowland, the overslot high school pitcher that the Braves took with their first day three pick. I don't see any accumulated stats, but he did sign. I assume injury and/or off field trouble. Anyone know?

He was another high upside arm in that draft class.

Ian Anderson 3.04 FIP 11.2k/9 4.76 BB/9 Rome A

Joey Wentz 2.57 FIP 10.4 k/9 2.77 bb/9 Rome A

Kyle Muller 4.72 FIP 8.03 k/9 3.65 bb/9 Danville

Drew Harrington 3.11 FIP 7.07k/9 2.83 bb/9 Florida A+

Bryce Wilson 3.08 FIP 9.13 k/9 2.08 bb/9 Rome A

Jeremy Walker 3.79 FIP 6.81 k/9 2.19 bb/9 Rome A

He's on the GCL roster I think. Not sure if he's hurt. Can't find anything on him.

[bravesfanMatt]

He's on the GCL roster I think. Not sure if he's hurt. Can't find anything on him.

This is the only thing I can find on the dude..

https://tomahawktake.com/2017/05/17/...ckstreet-boys/

He is with the org, but just hasn't played. maybe they are grooming him for a managerial run in 2018

[50PoundHead]

He's on the GCL roster I think. Not sure if he's hurt. Can't find anything on him.

I believe Rowland had arm surgery and I believe he was the draftee from 2016 from which the Braves tried to subtract some of the bonus agreed to in order to sign Josh Anthony. It may have been Becherer, but the Braves contended that one of the post-10th round guys that they signed for above slot had an injury they were not aware of when agreeing to the bonus. Spitballing here, but I believe MLB ruled that while a bonus can be reduced, the additional cap space produced from the change can't be shifted over to another over-slot signing. I may be wrong on that.

[zbhargrove]

I believe Rowland had arm surgery and I believe he was the draftee from 2016 from which the Braves tried to subtract some of the bonus agreed to in order to sign Josh Anthony. It may have been Becherer, but the Braves contended that one of the post-10th round guys that they signed for above slot had an injury they were not aware of when agreeing to the bonus. Spitballing here, but I believe MLB ruled that while a bonus can be reduced, the additional cap space produced from the change can't be shifted over to another over-slot signing. I may be wrong on that.

That does slightly ring a bell.