Atlanta Braves: Knockahoma Nation Episode 21
It’s that time in the baseball season when it’s easy to turn your attention to other things. Especially when your team isn’t”in the hunt” anymore. Minus a couple of wins here and there, the Bravos haven’t been the best team in the land this last week.
Don’t you concern yourselves… we’ve still got lots of Atlanta Braves things to chat about this week. We got you covered, no doubt. There might even be a little bit of a diversion into the world of umpires for some reason or another.
This week in the Nation, we are met by our old friend Blake Silvers, from the Rome-News Tribune. Blake’s one of the best writers around, plus working with the local paper, he’s on the ground there in Rome to see the Rome Braves on a regular basis.
Blake catches us up on the Atlanta Braves low-A affiliate and who to look out for. Spoilers: let’s just say that we’re excited about Christian Pache.
This past week Pache was included in Baseball America’s top-100 prospects. A few “arm chair” experts on Twitter threw some shade at the notion, at which point myself and Blake would like to remind folks that some guy named Ender Inciarte slashed .229./284/.331 as a 19-year-old in Low-A.
So, slow your roll on Pache. He’s only 18 and not everyone is
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