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Another strikeout for the second out of the inning, this one on a fastball. He's pulled at pitch count. AJSS: 2.2 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 5 K.

AJ Smith-Shawver has four strikeouts through 2.1 innings, all on the changeup. He threw it less than 10% of the time last year. O'Day is raving about him in the radio booth - says his three strikeouts in his first spring start were also on the changeup.

The Athletic wrote an article this morning about extension candidates and estimated it taking 7 years, $195 million for Fried right now.

From the best I can tell, the guys on the 40-man who haven’t thrown in a game yet are Morton, Ynoa, Winans and Iglesias. I’ll throw Waldrep in that group as well since he was invited to spring but not on the 40 man. Just throwing that group out there to monitor in case there are some unannounced...

He had the surgery in October 2022.

Bowman wrote today that Matzek sat 88-89 in his spring debut the other day. Gross.

Strider is through two innings with four strikeouts. Three of them on the curveball and one of them on the changeup. Fastball sitting 98-99.

Sale is obviously the big news of the day, but Owen Murphy sitting 94.2 mph today is also pretty interesting. That's a new level for him based on pretty much every scouting report on him. Obviously just about 30 pitches, so nothing to go crazy about yet but would be nice if it holds. He was...

And then he struck out the next two hitters. Sale likely done: 2 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 R, 4 K.

Sale touched 97 to strike out Grandal to start the second inning.

Sale sitting 94-96 in the first inning. Throwing the slider for a lot of strikes, threw two changeups as well, last one got Ke'Bryan Hayes to ground out.

Some pitch data on the three curveballs Strider threw on Saturday: https://x.com/LanceBroz/status/1762143737000370613?s=20.

Fangraphs put out an article with 100 more prospects to know outside their top 100 (https://blogs.fangraphs.com/names-to-know-100-more-relevant-prospects/). Braves info: Drake Baldwin: If Baldwin continues to perform like he did last season, he’ll be bumped to the Top 100 pretty quickly. He’s...

Fangraphs put out their list of "picks to click" for the 2025 list: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/picks-to-click-who-we-expect-to-make-the-2025-top-100/ Ignacio Alvarez mentioned as one, but the most interesting Brave is Adam Maier. He was an overslot pick in 2022 because of his arm issues before...

I would imagine we have to wait until next offseason to add onto his deal. Doing something now would likely push us over that next tax threshold that causes our 2025 first rounder to drop 10 spots.

Not sure where else to put this - Cole Phillips, the only real prospect we gave up in the Kelenic deal, has been recovering from Tommy John that he had right before the 2022 draft. Well he hasn’t pitched in a game since and just had his second Tommy John a few weeks ago.

I'm a Florida fan and watched pretty much all of Waldrep's starts last year. I think your concerns are pretty well founded. He would randomly lose control at some points last year (most notably against LSU in game two of the world series finals), but most of what I saw is a guy whose command is...

Out today: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/2024-top-100-prospects/. Smith-Shawver at 63, Waldrep at 85. Smith-Shawver was a two-sport star in high school who committed to Texas Tech for football (quarterback) and baseball. He was drafted as a long-term project with a big frame (6-foot-3, 205...

Law had a long write up today about our farm system and didn't say the word "Braves" once. He refuses to write it, and it absolutely cracks me up.

Thank goodness - another streaming service.