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Battery Power: for Atlanta Braves fans

Battery Power Podcast: Talking Braves prospects with Smith Brickner of Baseball Prospectus

Battery Power: for Atlanta Braves fans

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4.8797 Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In a special episode of the Battery Power Podcast, Kris Willis is joined by Smith Brickner of Baseball Prospectus to discuss the Atlanta Braves farm system. Smith helped author Baseball Prospectus’ Top 10 Braves preseason list which had Hurston Waldrep ranked as the team’s top prospect. In addition to Waldrep, Smith gave his thoughts on AJ Smith-Shawver, Owen Murphy and Spencer Schwellenbach. He also discussed Ignacio “Nacho” Alvarez and whether or not he thinks he can stick at shortstop long term. Baseball Prospectus Atlanta Braves Preseason Top 10 list Follow Smith Brickner on Twitter Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The Hello, welcome to a special episode of the battery power podcast. I am Chris Willis,

0:31.0

and today I am joined by baseball prospectus prospect writer Smith Brickner.

0:35.7

Smith worked on the Braves top 10 preseason prospect list at BP, and we're here to talk to him

0:40.4

about it.

0:41.0

Smith, thanks for joining me.

0:42.4

Chris, it's great to be on.

0:43.6

I really appreciate having me.

0:45.6

I'm looking forward to it.

0:46.9

At battery power, I don't know if you know, but Prospects is one of the things that we've

0:51.6

built our side around. Obviously, it really came to light during the

0:55.7

rebuild. But the prospects is still a major part of our site and our coverage. So it's good to have

1:01.2

somebody, you know, from the outside to kind of give us an opinion on where things stand with

1:06.1

the system. If you want to give me, give us a little background on your history as a prospect

1:12.3

writer. I know you were baseball prospectus now and everyone should go over there and subscribe to

1:17.0

be able to see your work. Yeah, well, I appreciate and very familiar with your website and you guys

1:21.7

see some great work as well. And, you know, that's that's something I just want to preface with is,

1:25.7

you know, just because we might have different rankings doesn't mean that I don't respect all the other outlets and all the, you know, that's, that's something I just want to preface with is, you know, just because we might have different rankings doesn't mean that I don't respect

1:29.3

all the other outlets and all the hard work that people do.

1:33.2

It's just a difference of opinion,

1:34.4

really,

1:34.8

but,

1:35.2

you know,

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