{"id":577531,"date":"2026-02-17T13:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/577531\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T13:56:13","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-top-prospects-austin-riley-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/577531\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Top Prospects, Austin Riley, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">For once, the Braves were able to make it through a day without any further injury news (knock on wood that becomes the norm.) And while Monday was a slow news day overall, it was fun to see JR Ritchie and Didier Fuentes named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batterypower.com\/atlanta-braves-prospects\/126261\/braves-have-two-prospects-in-2026-fangraphs-top-100-list\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:in the top 100 prospects at Fangraphs.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">in the top 100 prospects at Fangraphs. <\/a>While it is surprising that Cam Caminiti was not on the list, these three young arms appear to be the best of Atlanta\u2019s farm system currently. Their development will be a big story line this season.<\/p>\n<p>Braves News<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Austin Riley <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/braves\/news\/austin-riley-sets-30-homer-goal-for-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:talks expectations for him;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">talks expectations for him<\/a> with the Braves this year, a year in which Riley envisions his production to return to expected form.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>MLB News<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Walker Buehler and the Padres <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2026\/02\/16\/padres-add-walker-buehler-to-starting-competition\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:agreed to a minor-league deal.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">agreed to a minor-league deal.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Twins starter Pablo Lopez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7050943\/2026\/02\/16\/twins-pablo-lopez-batting-practice-tom-pohlad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:will have his pitching elbow;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">will have his pitching elbow<\/a> looked at further after experiencing soreness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Padres extended GM AJ Preller to a multi year contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For once, the Braves were able to make it through a day without any further injury news (knock&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,662,5,4721,535,50,25196,4,1944,1997,115],"class_list":["post-577531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-austin-riley","tag-baseball","tag-cam-caminiti","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-didier-fuentes","tag-mlb","tag-ohio","tag-pablo-lopez","tag-walker-buehler"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116086321205269613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}