Battery Power: for Atlanta Braves fans

After being off a week, this week's episode focuses on reflecting on the prospects that were sent elsewhere including talk about Joey Wentz, Travis Demeritte, and Kolby Allard. After that, we talk about what we are expecting through the end of the season for guys like Drew Waters, Cristian Pache, Ian Anderson, and the like. Eric rants a bit about Luiz Gohara and people being designated for assignm...

Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman in pseudo-emergency fashion to break down a busy, bullpen-heavy trade deadline for the Atlanta Braves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to discuss the fallout from recent injuries, look ahead to the trade deadline and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad is joined by TC's Eric Cole to discuss the upcoming trade deadline, the return of Ender Inciarte and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, we first tackled a few guys who have looked really strong of late including Bryce Ball's torrid run down in rookie ball, Tristan Beck's strong return from injury, Joey Wentz ratcheting up his strikeout numbers, and Alex Jackson tearing the cover off the ball. We are more excited about some of those performances than others. After that, we took a bunch of listener questions...

Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to discuss MLB All-Star festivities, Atlanta's sweep in San Diego, Dallas Keuchel, Josh Donaldson, Marcus Stroman, Matthew Boyd, prospects and more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, we focused solely on the prospect rankings we rolled out this past week over on Talking Chop. From discussing our unanimous top prospect Cristian Pache and how he had separated himself from the pack to discussing why some guys (looking at you, Luiz Gohara) didn't make the list at all, Matt and Eric go in depth into how the list was formulated, some of the harder calls that...

In this week's episode of the Talking Chop podcast, you will notice a decided lack of Ozzie Albies trade proposals and references to Michigan sports and the curse of Atlanta sports. That is because Brad is on location in Vegas covering the NBA Summer League. As a result, you are stuck with Eric handling main host duties. My condolences. Fortunately, Scott was able to join me to cover a whole lot o...

In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, we first look at the Futures Game selections for the Braves. The virtues of Ian Anderson and Cristian Pache are talked about quite a bit as well as cases made for Drew Waters and Kyle Muller because, well, we are greedy and would have loved to see some more Braves. Then, we talk about the status of some injured prospects including Freddy Tarnok, Tristan B...

Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to discuss All-Star selections, strong bullpen performance (before Sunday), the rest conundrum and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this weeks episode of Road to Atlanta, Matt and Eric first do a quick recap of how some of the guys are doing down in short season ball and as well as how some of the higher draft picks for the Braves are doing including Shea Langeliers and Braden Shewmake. We then discuss the draft signings overall as well as the guys who have not signed yet before we get into the meat of the episode which was...

Brad is joined by TC managing editor Kris Willis to discuss another productive, the greatness of Freddie Freeman, Mike Foltynewicz's struggles and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, we take a step back and take some listener questions as we wait for short-season ball to get fully underway. We discussed plenty of the Braves top prospects including what the near-term futures are for Drew Waters and Cristian Pache, how the 2018 draft class is doing, updating our outlook on Kolby Allard, and discussing some guys whose outlook has diminis...

Brad is joined by TC's Eric Cole to discuss an awesome week for the Atlanta Braves, including high-powered offense and memorable moments against Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, we take a step back from all of the draft talk (we did that a lot in recent weeks and it is a sore subject for some of us....*cough* *cough* Matt *cough) and instead dive back into creating our midseason Braves' minor league All-Star rosters. This thought exercise helps us get a good handle on the top prospects in the system before we start incorporating...

Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to catch up on the latest with the Atlanta Braves, from Dallas Keuchel to Nick Markakis, Julio Teheran and a sweep over the Miami Marlins.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman in emergency fashion to break down the signing of Dallas Keuchel.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode, we touch quickly on the recent promotions of William Contreras and Greyson Jenista to Double-A which look a bit puzzling on the face of it but make a certain amount of sense in others. After that, it is all draft talk as we talk first in generalities about what we thought about the draft which wasn't exactly a glowing endorsement, but we at least understood the strategy (we...

In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, Matt and Eric first take a look at some of the top performers in the Braves' farm system including the usual names like Trey Harris and Cristian Pache as well as giving some deserved air time to guys like Tucker Davidson who have been playing well and who might not see the limelight as much as they should. After that and some injury updates, we take our f...

Brad is joined by TC's Eric Cole to discuss the week that was, Austin Riley's early success, the upcoming MLB Draft and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, it is all draft talk as Talking Chop alum and Baseball America's current draft guru Carlos Collazo comes on the show. We explore the currently thinking about the draft including the Braves' options with the 9th overall pick to start the show. After that we talk about specific guys who are trending up and down including Hunter Bishop, Josh Jung, Daniel Esp...

Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to discuss Austin Riley's debut, Freddie Freeman's brilliance, Atlanta's recent performance and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, we take a week off from having guests on the show (fear not, Baseball America's Carlos Collazo will be on next week to talk draft stuffs) and took a bunch of questions from listeners on a wide array of topics. We discuss Austin Riley's call-up, several different angles on Drew Waters/Cristian Pache, the command issues we are seeing out of Kyle Wright and...

Brad is joined by Joe Lucia of Awful Announcing to discuss Austin Riley's breakout, the house of horrors in Los Angeles, starting pitching and much more.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, we had a really special guest. First, the three of us give you the usual update as to what is going on in the farm system with some of the top performers from the last week or so. Brace yourselves...there is a good bit of Austin Riley in the first segment as well as tidbits on members of the Mississippi rotation, Drew Waters and Cristian Pache, and Trey H...