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Top 10 Braves Prospects For 2025
Plus: The Hot Sheet Show streams live at 3:30 p.m. ET with NL East top prospect reveals & Phillies RHP Griff McGarry
Top 10 Braves Prospects For 2025
We’re kicking off top 10 prospect reveal season with a stroll through the NL East and a look at the Atlanta Braves.
The top of the Braves system is headlined by Drake Baldwin, a lefthanded-hitting catcher with power who could make his MLB debut in 2025. For the complete Braves rollout, be sure to check out:
Stay tuned each day this week as we continue prospect drops for the rest of the division, with the NL Central and West set to come soon, too.
KAVADAS TOPS THE AFL HOT SHEET
AFL Hot Sheet: Angels’ Niko Kavadas Slugs Way To Top Spot In Week 4
In this week’s edition of the Arizona Fall League Hot Sheet, we’re greeted by a new face: Niko Kavadas of the Angels.
With three home runs for the Mesa Solar Sox this past week, the 26-year-old first baseman now ranks second in the AFL in homers. Kavadas also ranks in OBP, which shouldn’t be much of a surprise given his .409 career rate.
Other Hot Sheet standouts this week include:
A trio of Royals prospects making a good impressive in the desert
An Athletics first-round draft pick with eight hits in his first 18 AFL at-bats
An oft-injured Blue Jays infielder who is piling up multi-hit games now that he’s healthy
Hot Sheet Show Streams Live At 3:30 p.m. ET
Don’t forget to join us this afternoon for our weekly Hot Sheet Show on Youtube. On this week’s episode, we’ll be introducing Baseball America’s crop of 2025 top prospects for the NL East before welcoming Phillies prospect Griff McGarry live on the show.
HOW MANY PPI PICKS?
2024 MLB Award Season Could Yield Three PPI Draft Picks—Or Zero
Award season in 2024 could have many implications for the 2025 MLB draft.
This season marks the third since the Prospect Promotion Incentive took effect. For the first time, MLB could have as many as three PPI picks added to next year’s draft order thanks to a trio of up-and-coming young players making major impacts.
Or there could be zero picks added.
Confused? Don’t be, because Baseball America’s Matt Eddy, who has waded into the PPI waters previously to help explain how the program works, has a full breakdown of how potential PPI picks might work out for 2025.
TRENDING NOW AT BASEBALL AMERICA
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