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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to The Road to Atlanta, a podcast voted solely to the Braves Farm System and Braves Prospects.

I am one of your host, Eric Cole. You may recognize me for my work over on Talking Chop.com, where I've been a part of the site since 2015 in various administrative capacities, really since 2015. Most importantly, these days, I'm the minor league editor as well as the deputy site manager. You can follow me on Twitter at

Lepricon with a K, and this is going to be a special Friday night recording of Road to

Atlanta because the draft is upon us. These are going to be a special Friday night recording of Road to Atlanta because the draft is upon us.

These are going to be our final pre-draft thoughts.

I will go ahead and tell you now it's a good chance that we won't run the full length of time that we normally do on this podcast,

but I did want to make sure we get our final thoughts out there, reviewed a couple of things that have kind of come out over the last week or so since we last recorded and joining me is the great Matt Powers who spearheads our draft coverage of here

over a talking shop. Matt, how are you, my man? Great. I mean, we're what, 48 hours or so away from the

three most exciting days of the year to me. So it's almost like Christmas as a child.

Yeah, Matt's a big, big draft guy. Like, we hear about the draft, like, multiple years

of draft classes ahead from Matt on a regular basis in our group chat. He's just that he lives,

breathes, and dies the draft. And, you know, last year with it being five rounds was kind of a real kick in the gut

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