MLB’s official prospect site Pipeline yesterday re-did the Top 30 prospects for every team to include the recent draft picks and players moved at the deadline, as well as players who have risen or fallen this year. That means a new look Top 30 for the Atlanta Braves, headlined by Cam Caminiti and JR Ritchie.

This list is quite a bit different than the Top 30 list that we recently released, but it is another source of information beyond here and Baseball America to show you how people around the game feel about Braves prospects.

The #1 there is slightly different than our #1, as Cam Caminiti comes in at #1 on Pipeline. Caminiti, who ranked #2 for us, is the only Braves prospect to make the overall Top 100 – coming in all the way at #81.

At #2 was JR Ritchie, who ranked third for us, giving him a 50 overall grade – worth noting that the bottom of the Top 100 had 55 overalls.

The next three players were a group of the recent Braves draftees. First rounder Tate Southisene ranked #3 (#7 here), followed by second rounder Alex Lodise at #4 (#9), and finally overslot fourth rounder (and biggest signing bonus in the Braves class) Briggs McKenzie at #5 (#8). It was definitely a little bit of a surprise to see these new draftees rank this high, but that may be because they are lower on some of the other prospects yet to come than others are.

From six to 10 come Nacho Alvarez Jr. (#6), Hurston Waldrep (#11), Garrett Baumann (#15), Didier Fuentes (#1), and Owen Murphy (#5). This is a particularly difficult group to rank. Alvarez has battled injury all year, Waldrep has struggled a good part of the year before making changes recently and looking better, and Murphy just returned from Tommy John surgery. Baumann ranks quite a bit higher than where we had him, going from #15 here to #8 on Pipeline. The biggest surprise is probably Fuentes, our #1 prospect in the Braves system, coming in all the way down at #9 for Pipeline.

The 11-15 were Conor Essenburg (#19), Drue Hackenberg (#23), Blake Burkhalter (#10), Lucas Braun (#18), and John Gil (#12). Essenburg is another recent overslot draft pick, and he comes in eight spots higher on Pipeline than he did here. Hackenberg, who has struggled with both injury and results all year, was a bit of a surprisingly high ranking at #12. Burkhalter, Braun, and Gil were all ranked fairly similarly to where we had them.

In the 16-20 we saw Diego Tornes (#4), Jose Perdomo (#13), Luke Sinnard (#16), Rolddy Munoz (NR), and Herick Hernandez (NR). If Didier Fuentes wasn’t the biggest surprise in terms of being ranked lower than we had him, that would be Tornes, who we had at fourth despite being a recent international signee who only played in the DSL this year. Perdomo and Sinnard came in similarly ranked, though Munoz and Hernandez are the first two players to show up that were not included in our Top 30.

The next five were Ian Mejia (NR), Luis Guanipa (#17), Jhancarlos Lara (#14), Landon Beidelschies (NR), and Carter Holton (NR). Three more unranked guys in this group with Mejia, recent draftee Beidelschies, and the injured for all of 2025 Holton. Guanipa came in five spots lower on the Pipeline list, while Lara came in nine spots lower – another one of the biggest drops from our rankings.

The last five players in the Pipeline Top 30 were Cade Kuehler (NR), Carlos Rodriguez (NR), Hayden Harris (#27), Ethan Bagwell (#26), and finally Rayven Antonio (#20). Two more players we didn’t rank start this group off in the injured Kuehler and Rodriguez. Harris and Bagwell ranked similarly to here, while Antonio saw his rankings 10 spots lower despite a great season for Augusta this year.

In total that means they ranked seven guys who were not ranked in our own Top 30 in Munoz, Hernandez, Mejia, Beidelschies, Holton, Kuehler, and Rodriguez. However Kuehler, Hernandez, and Beidelschies all made the list of six honorable mentions, while the other four ranked outside of our Top 36. That means seven guys in our Top 30 were not included here, and those guys are Raudy Reyes (#21), Owen Carey (#22), Isaiah Drake (#24), Brett Sears (#25), Eric Hartman (#28), Cody Miller (#29), and Jeremy Reyes (#30). That doesn’t include honorable mentions Elison Joseph, Nick Montgomery, and David McCabe.