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 information on:
"This system looks a lot like it did last year: it’s currently shallow due to trades, graduations, and the fallout from the previous regime’s scandal, which has kept it from acquiring two years worth of international talent. It’s still as top-heavy a system as you’ll find in baseball, with more potential stars than is typical. Had Atlanta been able to repeat what they did in 2019’s draft in 2020, perhaps there’d be another couple players at the bottom of the list. Had there been a 2020 season, maybe Morton or Backstrom would have made the main section by going out and performing. Johnson’s uptick in stuff was just much easier to identify than anything the club’s hitters improved upon.
This system was perhaps the most difficult one to source information for so far. Atlanta did not participate in video or data sharing from their alternate site, their Instructional League roster was the smallest in baseball, and they held their instructs in Gwinnett rather than in Florida, which was a curveball for us in terms of sourcing, since all the other Florida complex teams held theirs there. We were able to source 2021 spring training pitch data for many of the upper-level pitching prospects here but many of them haven’t thrown in games that have been broadcast. Then there was this news from Wednesday: we learned Atlanta will once again avoid participating in scouting access/co-operation, at the alternate site and for minor league spring training. Teams’ participation (or lack thereof) in in-person scouting could be more of a budgetary decision than a baseball one, but it makes teams harder for scouts to advance (especially with so many pitchers likely going back and forth from the alt site to the majors) and turns video from your alternate site into a tradable asset of sorts."
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 information on:
"This system looks a lot like it did last year: it’s currently shallow due to trades, graduations, and the fallout from the previous regime’s scandal, which has kept it from acquiring two years worth of international talent. It’s still as top-heavy a system as you’ll find in baseball, with more potential stars than is typical. Had Atlanta been able to repeat what they did in 2019’s draft in 2020, perhaps there’d be another couple players at the bottom of the list. Had there been a 2020 season, maybe Morton or Backstrom would have made the main section by going out and performing. Johnson’s uptick in stuff was just much easier to identify than anything the club’s hitters improved upon.
This system was perhaps the most difficult one to source information for so far. Atlanta did not participate in video or data sharing from their alternate site, their Instructional League roster was the smallest in baseball, and they held their instructs in Gwinnett rather than in Florida, which was a curveball for us in terms of sourcing, since all the other Florida complex teams held theirs there. We were able to source 2021 spring training pitch data for many of the upper-level pitching prospects here but many of them haven’t thrown in games that have been broadcast. Then there was this news from Wednesday: we learned Atlanta will once again avoid participating in scouting access/co-operation, at the alternate site and for minor league spring training. Teams’ participation (or lack thereof) in in-person scouting could be more of a budgetary decision than a baseball one, but it makes teams harder for scouts to advance (especially with so many pitchers likely going back and forth from the alt site to the majors) and turns video from your alternate site into a tradable asset of sorts."
