Atlanta Braves Mid-season Top 50 Prospects

Every season, I have tried to bring a mid-season update to the Atlanta Braves top 100 prospect list that I work on every winter. This year will be a little earlier than most, but we’ll discuss the reasoning for that more in the Friday AQA post.

The focus here is on an increasingly difficult task, narrowing a list to 50 Atlanta Braves prospects. The Braves’ system is one of the top 5 in the game without question, and while there are some elite prospects at the top end, what makes the Braves’ system so incredible is the depth within the system – players who are not even on this list are viable guys that could be major league contributors, if even in a bullpen or off the bench.

We’ll look at all players within the system currently, including those who were recently drafted, but only those who have signed and been assigned.

The guys who I will be excluding are those who are or have been in the majors and likely to surpass their rookie limits this season if they haven’t already. That meant that guys like Rio Ruiz, Johan Camargo, Luke Jackson, Sean Newcomb, and Jason Hursh did not make this list.

While only Newcomb would have factored in the top of the list, it’s still important to note when you do not see the other names, that is why.

That said, any guys who may make it to the majors possibly this season and burn through their rookie eligibility would require projection, so I won’t exclude them as we just do not know.

Here are links to the longer write ups:

Monday – 50-41

Tuesday – 31-40

Wednesday – 21-30

Thursday – 11-20

Friday – AQA (with a BIG announcement!), Top Ten

Without further ado, here’s the top 50, in list format:

1.Ronald Acuna

2.Ozzie Albies

3.Kolby Allard

4.Kyle Wright

5.Mike Soroka

6.Cristian Pache

7.Ian Anderson

8.Kevin Maitan

9.Luiz Gohara

10.Travis Demeritte

11.Max Fried

12.Alex Jackson

13.Dustin Peterson

14.Joey Wentz

15.Lucas Sims

16.Randy Ventura

17.Austin Riley

18.Kyle Muller

19.Brett Cumberland

20.Drew Waters

21.Anfernee Seymour

22.Yunior Severino

23.Joey Meneses

24.William Contreras

25.Tyler Pike

26.Patrick Weigel

27.Bryse Wilson

28.Ray-Patrick Didder

29.A.J. Minter

30.Carlos Castro

31.Yenci Pena

32.Touki Toussaint

33.Isranel Wilson

34.Braxton Davidson

35.Jonathan Morales

36.Alay Lago

37.Matt Withrow

38.Lucas Herbert

39.Derian Cruz

40.Tyler Neslony

41.Ricardo Sanchez

42.Livan Soto

43.Akeel Morris

44.Alejandro Salazar

45.Braulio Vazquez

46.Keith Curcio

47.Devan Watts

48.Juan Carlos Negret

49.Ryan Lawlor

50.Chase Johnson-Mullins

Now, any of you who’ve read my top 100 list in the offseason know that I didn’t just pick 50 guys I knew in the system. I have lots more of interest, so flip the page and you’ll learn about a number more that could be top 50 guys by the end of the year!!