Atlanta Braves draft wrap-up: Victor Vodnik scouting report

The Atlanta Braves draft brought mixed results. While they signed 33 of the 34 prospects expected to sign, the Braves failed to sign first-round pick Carter Stewart.

The Atlanta Braves built their draft strategy around selecting more college and junior college players to fill the gap left when they lost 13 prospects in last year’s scandal.

Perhaps the Braves signed a higher percentage of picks this year than last because of that strategy. Maybe the Braves old front office team simply scared off prospects with their tactics last year. Whatever the causes may be, the first Alex Anthopoulos draft successfully inked 84.6% of prospects selected.

The ratio of pitchers to position players selected remained above 55% as it has every year since 2014. In the three seasons before that, the ratio dropped below 50%; 42.5% in 2012 and  47.5% in 2013 and 2014.

I expect many of the newest Atlanta Braves to join our midseason top 30 list as represented on MLBPipeline.com and elsewhere, as players graduate or age off the list.  Others may be forced down the list because of the arrival of new selectees.

Atlanta Braves draft spending and other numbers

The Atlanta Braves’ final round 2-10 bonus pool totaled $3,286,600. They exceeded that amount by $128,400 resulting in the imposition of a $96,300 penalty. That brought the total spent for round 1-10 bonuses and over slots bonuses to $3,511,300.

Bonuses paid to players in rounds 11-40 totaled $2,350,000 making the grand total spent in the draft $5,861,300.

Here are the position breakouts and number of draftees selected by type of school, as reported by Baseball-Reference.