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Well, here's the thing. If you are too concerned about risk, then you are never going to land a Bryce Harper type of talent. Bryce Harper type talents don't come out of the college game. Chipper Jones type talents don't come out of the college game. While that's really not what this...

Back in 2009, there was a 16 year old player that was getting hyped up as "The Next Big Thing" baseball prospect. That was Bryce Harper. How many would have taken the 18 year old more developed high school guy over Harper at that time?

Brian Bridges made the comment recently that Ian Anderson, Joey Wentz, Kyle Muller, Bryse Wilson, and Matt Rowland is your GCL staff this year.

Eh, I just chalk it up to you can't be right all the time.

Didn't we get Ricardo Sanchez and slot money for Kyle Kubitza? Another fleecing by this front office.

I'm a big believer in the philosophy that you can play it safe and be good or take a risk and be great. If I were running a scouting department, how safe of a prospect a player is would not be much of a consideration. What kind of upside the prospect has would be strongly considered. This is...

The Olivera mistake is more than off set with the brilliant acquisitions of John Gant and Rob Whalen. It also will not surprise me to see Akiel Morris as a mainstay high leverage guy in the bullpen down the road.

So, long term: Tommy La Stella or Vizzy/What we get for Vizzy, Christian Pache, and Derian Cruz?

Where they rank should not be based on their current development. It should be based on their upside and potential long term impact. I could care less for the two extra development years of high school. This kid has more raw potential than any hitter that was drafted this year. This kid is...

Tommy LaStella is what he is. He's a light hitting, 2B only prospect that lacks the arm or athleticism to play anywhere else. He's a solid contact guy that offers you very little in terms of power or stolen bases. It's a complete rip off to get Viz for him. Viz is a legitimate high end...

Moniak is a good prospect, but there is no way you would take him long term over Maitan.

IMO, the Braves have the best scouting department in all of baseball.

The Braves scouting department and front office have done everything they set out to do over the past year plus. They masterfully worked the draft this year to get the guy they felt was the best pitching prospect in the draft along with two more high upside arms, and at least another two high...

I think Jackson Pokorney has signed.

Bottom line is this though. What Lewis would sign for really doesn't have much bearing on this. The Braves looked at him, but they obviously weren't taking him regardless of what he signed for. Brian Bridges said in the interview with Bill that they spent a lot of time looking at the college...

Well, the very ones saying Atlanta is taking the wrong strategy by focusing on pitching will be the same ones that complain that Kyle Lewis is striking out 30% of the time as he faces more advanced pitchers or that Corey Ray is putting up platoon splits as he goes through the minors. It...

Maybe it is time to realize that while Lewis was high on BA's and MLB Pipeline's boards, he wasn't high on Brian Bridges's board.

Contrary to popular opinion, there are prospects who are late developers and put things together at a little older age. Meneses signed as a 19 year old out of Mexico, and he has dealt with a litany of injuries in his career at this point. At his age, he needs to be tested at Mississippi to see...

No one has penciled Kevin Maitan into the HOF, but everyone that evaluates these players for the draft has said that Kevin Maitan would have been the top overall prospect in this draft. We are talking about a Chipper Jones/Andruw Jones level prospect here. I mean, the guy many of you wanted...

What other organization can say that they have added the pitching talent this team has added in the past two years along with a bat like Kevin Maitan? And not just Maitan, but Yunier Severino and Abraham Gutierrez as well? Brad Cumberland was one of the top 2-3 slugging catchers in the entire...