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Per Passan and others. No word on return yet.

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...

From the Rockies. Victor Vodnik and Tanner Gordon heading to Colorado.

We're under two months from the draft, so probably time to start this thread. Dansby leaving gives us an extra pick after the second round. That pick gives us a slight boost, up to the 22nd largest pool of money. Here are all the pools and pick values if you're interested. People are talking...

Without rico to do the daily minor league threads, I think we just use this thread for conversation about the minor league happenings. I don't see any need to make daily threads. Everyone was off yesterday - action gets started again tonight. Soroka starting for Gwinnett is probably the most...

Rome had an early game today. Not much to report on the mound. There are obviously more players of interest, but I'm pretty much only paying attention to the top three hitters in the order right now - OF Kevin Kilpatrick, C Drake Baldwin, INF Ignacio Alvarez. All 2022 draft picks and all had...

Soroka threw well. 4 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 5 K. 69 pitches. Roddery Munoz also got promoted from Mississippi to Gwinnett yesterday. He could be a bullpen option soon. Already on the 40-man. Threw a clean inning today and struck out Paul Dejong on a rehab assignment.

Fangraphs had a long story about the Anderson/Elder demotions and quoted their prospects guy Eric Longenhagen in the story when talking about Dodd and Shuster. Here's the link if you want to read it...

Dylan Dodd starting. Chip and Ben Ingram talking very highly of Braden Shewmake and even said he has interested himself into the SS battle. Not sure I buy that, but he’s playing short and leading off today. Just made a great play in the six hole in the first inning.

Traded Justyn Henry Malloy and Jake Higginbotham.

Atlanta and Kansas City are finalizing a trade that will send center-field prospect Drew Waters, right-handed pitching prospect Andrew Hoffmann and a third minor leaguer to the Royals for the 35th pick in Sunday's draft, which has a $2.2 million slot value, sources tell ESPN.

Low A Augusta is the first to release theirs: https://www.milb.com/augusta/news/atlanta-braves-announce-greenjackets-opening-day-roster. Definitely some interesting pieces, but like most of our minor league affiliates, not a ton of depth of prospects. Only three of our top 30 are in Augusta...

We're about three months from the draft. By letting Freddie walk and assuming we don't sign any of the remaining qualifying offer free agents, we'll have all of our picks plus an extra pick after the end of the second round and after competitive balance picks. Just as important as the pick...

https://blogs.fangraphs.com/top-30-prospects-atlanta-braves/ I'm just starting to read now. They have Michael Harris #4 and are by far the lowest on Shewmake, having him at 12. Pretty interesting asterisk to this list here though. They say our system was the toughest for them to get...

Obviously it looks like signing deadline will move from July 2 to January, but I’m bored and we are back in the international game after all the penalties. Our international pool will be cut in half this year, and I believe cut from there because of the Will Smith and Ozuna signings, but...

Just released: https://blogs.fangraphs.com/top-27-prospects-atlanta-braves/ Really interesting info. This is always the best prospect writeups because they search out and find info on spin rates, exit velocities, etc.

Here's their updated Braves list: https://www.fangraphs.com/prospects/the-board/2019-in-season-prospect-list?sort=-1,1&pageitems=10000000000000&pagenum=0&team=atl On the overall top 100...

More of this stuff going on. Hopefully this is nothing major. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/mlb-teams-involvement-with-cuban-players-under-justice-department-scrutiny/2019/05/22/d9f0bc04-6cd1-11e9-8f44-e8d8bb1df986_story.html

Great read: http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/26587688/one-year-ronald-acuna-jr-ready-claim-best-player-baseball-title.

Interesting move here. He's off to a decent start at High A as a starter, but I don't know how he fits into the Mississippi rotation with Anderson, Muller, Wentz, Weigel and Davidson there. Maybe they're moving him to the pen and trying to see if he can help the big league bullpen? He's also on...