Talking Chop: 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 assignment as though it was this shocking thing. Finally, we take listener questions about the most difficult promotions for pitchers to adjust to, Greyson Jenista's recent hot streak, and much more. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/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 podcastchoices.com/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 podcastchoices.com/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 and answered them including discussion of Ian Anderson, the Braves' proficiency in developing hitters, as well as our favorite MiLB parks. We hope you enjoy this one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/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 had to be made, and whether or not there were any surprises once we actually got the list finalized. We also took a few questions from folks over on Twitter to answer to make sure we didn't forget anything super important. Thanks again to everyone for reading the site this week and enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 of ground in Brad's absence. Enclosed in said podcast you will find topics covered including: - Recapping the Braves' awesome first half of the season - Our MVPs and LVPs for the Braves from the first half of the season - Discussing the injured and rehabbing Braves including Anthony Swarzak, Dansby Swanson, and Ender Inciarte - Looking back at the games from the last week or so - Recovering from a crazy 9th inning in Sunday's game versus the Marlins - An early look at trade deadline targets - Much, much more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 Beck, Corbin Clouse, CJ Alexander, and Victor Vodnik while mourning the retirement of all-around good dude Derian Cruz. After all of that, each of us talk about a couple of guys that are trending up on our personal rankings as well as some that are trending downward as a little bit of a teaser for our Top 30 Braves Prospects List that will be rolling out on Talking Chop during the All-Star break. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/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 discussing the guys we have missed the most on. From old favorites like Tommy La Stella and Jordan Schaefer to more recent misses, we talk about the guys that exceeded our expectations and guys that broke our hearts. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/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 diminished this season (if only temporarily).  After that, there were a LOT of questions pertaining to the 2019 draft class and the short-season ball rosters including guys we have our eyes on, who we think could have the longest MLB career, and lots of stuff in-between. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/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 the 2019 draftees into the mix ahead of our Top 30 Braves prospects list which will be coming out during the MLB All-Star break. It also highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the system....plus it is just fun to talk about prospects and making Dream Teams with them. Enjoy!  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/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 podcastchoices.com/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 think) and there are some definite benefits. After that, we look at the picks themselves from the high profile ones in Shea Langeliers and Braden Shewmake as well as the day two and three picks that could really make some noise for the Braves in the future. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 final dive before the draft where we talk about the most likely candidates to be taken with the 9th overall pick (well, the most likely at THIS moment in time anyways), who we like and don't like, and then we talk about some names for later on in the draft. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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 podcastchoices.com/adchoices