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Atlanta Braves Top 100 Prospects Scouting Report: 23. Juan Yepez

By Benjamin Chase

Mar 15, 2015; Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA; The Atlanta Braves logo painted on the field during a spring training baseball game at Champion Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 10-5. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports
Mar 15, 2015; Lake Buena Vista, FL, USA; The Atlanta Braves logo painted on the field during a spring training baseball game at Champion Stadium. The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves 10-5. Mandatory Credit: Reinhold Matay-USA TODAY Sports /
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Future Outlook


The Braves are notoriously tight-lipped about their minor league injuries, making Bill Belichek look loose with injury information in comparison, so giving you an idea about when we’ll see Yepez back again is fool’s errand.

Yepez has one of the most impressive hit tools in the entire system, and if only on that one skill, he’d be a fun guy to watch, but to have shown already some of that skill at a young age in Rome indicates that the future is plenty bright for Yepez, and he’s a guy that Braves fans should be excited about. He may get lost in some of the big-name pitchers or the loud-tool outfielders, but a hit tool as advanced as Yepez’s is a skill that frequently leads to some level of a major league career, whereas those loud tools very well may end up flaming out.

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I’d wager that Yepez will take his time working up the system, improving his defense along the way. I’m not sure if the team would try him in an outfield corner with his more improved conditioning that he exhibited this season, but the reports are that the arm would play there if they did. He’s only 18, and he’ll have plenty of time to work his way up the system to succeed!

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