![]() ![]() With the D’Braves, the big-bodied Ball maintained a. After being selected all the way back in the 24th round of the 2019 draft, Ball started his Braves career in rookie ball, playing 41 games for the now-contracted Danville Braves. Langeliers’ pro debut left something to be desired in terms of the numbers, but he was pushed to full-season ball and there’s more power in there.”Īs expected, earlier this month, Langeliers was invited to big league spring camp, and he’ll compete with catchers Alex Jackson and William Contreras for dibs at Atlanta’s backup role.īall, who was 24th on FG’s 2020 list and 12th in our rankings this offseason, had a much more exciting pro debut. Gomez has the higher ceiling (mostly because we know less about his offensive talent and tend to fill in those gaps with positive projection) while Langeliers is a higher-probability prospect. “Shea Langeliers and Antonio Gomez are the glove-first guys in this group. Here’s what Logenhagen and Goldstein had to say: Langeliers joins four other prospect catchers that made the “Behind the Dish” portion of Picks to Click. Although, compared to some of the other top prospect catchers in the sport, Logenhagen and Goldstein still believe it’s Langeliers’ glove that gives him the best shot at soon cracking the next Top 100. ![]() ![]() The former Baylor star is looked at as a defense-first player, and his 92 wRC+ in 2019 shows that he could be a little better with the bat than originally projected. 255 with 15 XBH, 34 RBI, and threw out 16 of 39 would-be-base stealers (41 caught-stealing%). After being drafted first-overall by Atlanta in the 2019 draft, Langeliers played 54 games with the system’s former Single-A club, the Rome Braves, where he hit. Langeliers, FG’s 7th ranked Braves prospect in 2020, and our 6th ranked player in SportsTalkATL’s 2021 Top 30, is coming off a solid showing from two seasons ago. Even so, Logenhagen - joined this year by former Astros executive and new FG writer Kevin Goldstein - picked two highly talented Braves prospects (out of 47 players overall) in this year’s column, catcher Shea Langeliers and first baseman/DH Bryce Ball.įG has yet to cover Atlanta’s prospect list this offseason, as part of the site’s extremely detailed reports published each year, however, both Logenhagen and Goldstein do provide a bit of commentary regarding Langeliers and Ball. It’s a tough list to predict, made even more challenging by their rule of not picking the same player twice. With seemingly everyone’s top 100 prospect rankings released over these last several weeks, for the fourth-straight year, FanGraphs wrapped up its prospect coverage with its annual Picks to Click column, highlighting the site’s list of current non-top 100 prospects expected to make next year’s Top 100.Įric Logenhagen (prospect expert at FG) and former teammate Kiley McDaniel (now at ESPN ) have chosen 163 players combined since 2018, with just over 27% (45 players) of their picks making the following year’s list. ![]()
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