The Atlanta Braves minor league system is dominated by pitching, with all five of our top prospects and nine of the top fifteen being right-handed pitchers.
But MLB Pipeline thinks that’s going to change in the hurry.
Predicting each team’s 2026 Top Prospects, a trio of the league’s prospect analysts have SS Luis Perdomo, the team’s most recent international free agent signing, ascending to be named the organization’s #1 prospect.
They admit it’s a bold prediction, since Perdomo literally hasn’t played a single inning of baseball as a professional, having just signed in January, but he’s expected to debut in the Dominican Summer League this season and was in their top three of available international prospects prior to this year’s J15 signing period.
They believe he’s among the “best hitting prospects” in the class, with above-average contact ability and the ability to reach at least average power as he physically matures. Projected to stick at shortstop, a position where Atlanta doesn’t have a lot of options in the future, MLB Pipeline believes he can get to an above-average defensive level, a needed talent level for a team that’s been spoiled by having such great defenders as Andrelton Simmons and Dansby Swanson over the last fifteen years.
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