The Low-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves should have a large number of top prospects when the season gets underway in 2021.
After all the Minor League Baseball shake-up this offseason, the one new team the Atlanta Braves acquired was the Augusta GreenJackets who will now be their Low-A affiliate.
With no more rookie league teams, Augusta will now become the home for a lot of young prospects and newly drafted players.
I wanted to write this article because we had a reader ask what prospects might be in Augusta this year for fans looking to plan a trip to the new Low-A affiliate of the Braves.
What Braves prospects can we expect to see in SAL league Augusta? Excited to see them light up SRP park!
— T-Cole (@HoolieandJulie) January 7, 2021
First of all, SRP Park in Augusta, South Carolina was just opened in 2018 and was voted the Ballpark of the Year by a couple of publications during its inaugural season.
It’s a little over a two-hour drive from Atlanta, but if you get to chance to take in a game there you definitely should.
Figuring out which prospects will be in August could be tricky, mostly because there was no minor league season last year, so it’s unclear how teams will shuffle their players this season.
Another thing to note, it was announced that Double-A levels and below won’t be able to begin their spring training until after the MLB spring training is over, which means the Mississippi, Rome, and Augusta seasons will likely be delayed.
For this exercise, I’ll only be focussing on some of the Braves’ top prospects, which is what I assume most of you are interested in anyway.