Fangraphs Top 31 Braves Prospects

thethe said:
Lincecum was a freak of nature and used an incredible amount of torque and momentum from his unorthodox windup. He was also a smaller guy so I agree that the comparison doesn't hold water here.
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Strider is not a big guy… but agree with the upper body torque. Probably not a great comp.
 
thethe said:
I think sometimes guys that have big jobs in sports take a year or two 'off' by taking a lesser job. Not sure whats up with Bridges personal situation (family/kids/etc...) but someone with that type of success should have the top amateur job somewhere for sure.
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Maybe. It’s also been 3 years and he moved across the country for this job.

Don’t know anything. Just weird!
 
chop2chip said:
Maybe. It’s also been 3 years and he moved across the country for this job.

Don’t know anything. Just weird!
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Possibly - Roy Clark obviously found footing in KC first as a scout and now as a senior advisor. Royals farm system is loaded so you have to wonder how much of a hand he played in that.

I'd expect to see Bridges eventually land there as well.
 
Not a scout, so I'm not sure how you grade these pitches exactly.

It seems like people think Strider's SL does not look great. But I think it has a 50% plus swing and miss rate. So it's effective. Maybe it's all bc it's not the FB, but it seems solid to me.

Like Anderson's FB, it just seems to play up. It works at 95-6, and maybe it won't at all at 93. But it works now.
 
Russ2dollas said:
Not a scout, so I'm not sure how you grade these pitches exactly.

It seems like people think Strider's SL does not look great. But I think it has a 50% plus swing and miss rate. So it's effective. Maybe it's all bc it's not the FB, but it seems solid to me.

Like Anderson's FB, it just seems to play up. It works at 95-6, and maybe it won't at all at 93. But it works now.
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This is my view. I feel like his slider is a very good pitch… it’s just not a traditional looking slider
 
CyYoung31 said:
The same person who couldn’t see Kyle Wright becoming a top of the rotation starter.
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The movement on striders slider is below average in both directions. It is below average on all ways pitches are measured.

It probably plays up because the FA is elite, and something about his pitching motion is deceptive. Possibly the short arm action.
 
Enscheff said:
The movement on striders slider is below average in both directions. It is below average on all ways pitches are measured.

It probably plays up because the FA is elite, and something about his pitching motion is deceptive. Possibly the short arm action.
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His fastball is so good the slider doesn't have to move much. It just has to look like the fastball and not be the fastball.

I think the difference in velocity might be more important to the slider's success than the movement. Hitters have to gear up for the fastball so much that the high 80s slider that looks like a fastball out of his hand destroys their timing.

I'm in the camp that the slider probably doesn't work if Strider is at 93 on the fastball. Everything plays off the fastball.
 
By the time the Braves now ****ty farm system actually begins to bleed into the major-league product, I just hope they’re two titles deep and have started the rebuild process.
 
UNCBlue012 said:
By the time the Braves now ****ty farm system actually begins to bleed into the major-league product, I just hope they’re two titles deep and have started the rebuild process.
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That’s why we’ll have to rely on the FA market for a few years while the system restocks itself. I’d say we’ve graduated more major league talent then any other team the past 5 years. Not just minor league guys but real contributors.
 
Kinda an odd pick last year in Schwellenbach. The FG projection shows his eta at 2027, and he’s already like 21 or 22. There must be a lot of data of him being a fast mover once he recovers from surgery. So basically even if he smokes his eta, he’ll be like 25.

That doesn’t happen that often
 
Tapate50 said:
Kinda an odd pick last year in Schwellenbach. The FG projection shows his eta at 2027, and he’s already like 21 or 22. There must be a lot of data of him being a fast mover once he recovers from surgery. So basically even if he smokes his eta, he’ll be like 25.

That doesn’t happen that often
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Always wondered if he wasn't drafted specifically with an RP track in mind. Nasty stuff, experience closing important games. If that was the case, there would be little reason to spend time with him trying to develop a third pitch, kinda like Strider with the difference in the two being Strider's fastball is so elite that they can get away with giving him the opportunity to develop his secondary pitch(es) at this level in hopes he can remain a starter as the velocity begins to decline.

I know the expected "plan" with Schwellenbach is to stretch him out and make him a SP (even according to FG's reports), but Alex rarely does things most people expect him to do.
 
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