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Atlanta Braves 2018 top 125 prospects breakdown and prior list review

By Benjamin Chase

BOSTON, MA - JUNE 24: A glove and the rosin bag sit on the mound before the interleague game between the Boston Red Sox and the Atlanta Braves at Fenway Park on June 23, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Winslow Townson/Getty Images)
BOSTON, MA - JUNE 24: A glove and the rosin bag sit on the mound before the interleague game between the Boston Red Sox and the Atlanta Braves at Fenway Park on June 23, 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Winslow Townson/Getty Images) /
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PITTSBURGH, PA – AUGUST 21: Dansby Swanson #7 of the Atlanta Braves reacts after hitting a two run home run in the fifth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates at PNC Park on August 21, 2018 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Justin K. Aller/Getty Images) /

The 2015-2016 list

1. Dansby Swanson
2. Ozzie Albies
3. Sean Newcomb
4. Aaron Blair
5. Hector Olivera
6. Manny Banuelos
7. Lucas Sims
8. Tyrell Jenkins
9. Mallex Smith
10. Touki Toussaint
11. Austin Riley
12. Braxton Davidson
13. Kolby Allard
14. John Gant
15. Max Fried
16. Ronald Acuna
17. Mike Soroka
18. Rio Ruiz
19. Chris Ellis
20. Casey Kelly
21. Andrew Thurman
22. Dustin Peterson
23. Juan Yepez
24. Isranel Wilson
25. Leudys Baez
26. Jonathan Morales
27. Luke Dykstra
28. Dan Winkler
29. Derian Cruz
30. Randy Ventura
31. Ryan Weber
32. Zachary Bird
33. Lucas Herbert
34. William Contreras
35. Cristian Pache
36. Josh Graham
37. Connor Lien
38. Ricardo Sanchez
39. Max Povse
40. Daniel Castro
41. Brandon Barker
42. Ray-Patrick Didder
43. Steve Janas
44. Luis Valenzuela
45. Robert Whalen
46. Keith Curcio
47. A.J. Minter
48. Johan Camargo
49. Justin Ellison
50. Seth Webster
51. Carlos Franco
52. Collin Yelich
53. Ryan Clark
54. Omar Obregon
55. Tanner Murphy
56. Mauricio Cabrera
57. Ricardo Rodriguez
58. Chris O’Dowd
59. Jason Hursh
60. Carlos Castro
61. Bradley Keller
62. Joseph Odom
63. Kurt Hoekstra
64. Anthony Concepcion
65. Alejandro Salazar
66. Jaret Hellinger
67. Kyle Kinman
68. Carlos Lopez
69. Sean Godfrey
70. Caleb Beech
71. Jose Morel
72. Patrick Weigel
73. Elias Arias
74. Trevor Belicek
75. Dian Toscano
76. Chase Johnson-Mullins
77. Tyler Brosius
78. Sander Boeldak
79. Matt Withrow
80. Dilmer Mejia
81. Wes Parsons
82. Chad Sobotka
83. Kelvin Estevez
84. Joseph Daris
85. Alec Grosser
86. Evan Rutckyj
87. Anthony Guardado
88. Sean McLaughlin
89. Jake Lanning
90. Jose Ramirez
91. Luis Barrios
92. Ryan Lawlor
93. Alex Aquino
94. Gilbert Suarez
95. Jose Pina
96. Luis Gamez
97. Bradley Roney
98. Jorge Zavala
99. Zach Quintana
100. Trey Keegan

Breakdown

Woof! This first one was rough, mainly due to rating close to majors so highly. That led to guys like Banuelos and Jenkins getting ranked so highly. Of course, no one could have seen Olivera turning into a POS off the field.

Thurman is still a sad story to me. He was a guy with excellent stuff that was a late-bloomer that the Atlanta Braves got from the Astros in the Gattis/Foltynewicz deal. Thurman in his first year with the Braves organization had a brilliant start with Carolina before the bus crash that happened in 2015. He missed nearly 2 months and was never quite the same. When the crash happened, he had made 6 starts, tossing 32 1/3 innings, with a 2.51 ERA and a 7/23 BB/K ratio. He was let go by the Braves organization in 2016.

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