{"id":747081,"date":"2026-07-09T09:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/747081\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T09:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T09:06:16","slug":"atlanta-braves-news-victor-mederos-to-atlanta-win-in-pittsburgh-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/747081\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlanta Braves News: Victor Mederos to Atlanta, win in Pittsburgh, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Since this is my last pre-draft article, I\u2019ll take a minute to discuss what I\u2019d like to see in the Braves\u2019 upcoming draft class. The franchise has a huge opportunity to add talent this weekend, picking in the top 10 and again at 26, thanks to Drake Baldwin\u2019s Prospect Promotion Incentive pick for winning NL Rookie of the Year. Starting at pick 9, I want an underslot pick. It doesn\u2019t seem like there is going to be a talent that I would want to pay at or above slot for at the #9 pick, with a tier drop-off after the top 6 players and then no super clean prep archetype or college player without red flags in that range. That said, prep lefty Gio Rojas is my preferred pick at 9 on an underslot deal. Beyond that, spread the money around, pick up a handful of high upside players that the franchise thinks they can develop. They\u2019ve worked really well with pitchers who haven\u2019t spent a ton of time developing themselves as pitchers, whether due to splitting their time with hitting or with another sport. Grab a few position players with real upside too if possible. This could be the most fun draft for the Braves in a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since this is my last pre-draft article, I\u2019ll take a minute to discuss what I\u2019d like to see&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,4206,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":["post-747081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta","tag-atlanta-braves","tag-atlanta-braves-news","tag-atlantabraves","tag-baseball","tag-braves","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116889228695331687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747081","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=747081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}