The Atlanta Braves have strategically lined up their pitching prospects.
Talking to MLB Pipeline’s Jim Callis in spring training, Braves assistant general manager Ben Sestanovich described the “layers” to Atlanta’s plethora of pitching prospects, with designs of getting specific prospects coming up to the majors in specific years after traveling through the minor league system together, competing with one another.
Atlanta’s beginning to get the 2025 layer moving with the news that pitching prospect Spencer Schwellenbach is being promoted from High-A Rome to Double-A Mississippi.
Schwellenbach, 23, was a 2nd-round pick by Atlanta in 2021 out of Nebraska.