Atlanta Braves: Top 10 Rookie Seasons of Past 30 Years

The Atlanta Braves have had a lot of great rookie seasons over the years. We look at the top 10 rookie seasons of the past 30 years.

If you’re going to have sustained success as a major league club, you have to continually bring up solid players through your farm system. The Atlanta Braves have been one of the best organizations at doing that over the last 30 years.

From 1989 to 2000 the Atlanta Braves had a player receive votes in every NL Rookie of the Year voting. That’s part of the reason they were able to dominate that period of baseball.

Unfortunately, they’ve had nine seasons since 2001 where they didn’t have a player receive votes in the NL Rookie of the Year voting.

At the same time, some of their best rookie seasons have coming in the past 10 years. There just hasn’t been a steady influx of talent every year like there was in the 90s.

That could start to change as the Braves start to bring up some of their talented prospects.

Atlanta has several players who could contend for the Rookie of the Year title in 2019. MLB.com tabbed Touki Toussaint as their pick from the Braves, but they also mention Kolby Allard, Luiz Gohara, Austin Riley, Mike Soroka, Bryse Wilson, and Kyle Wright.

Whoever wins that fifth spot in the starting rotation will have a leg up and a good chance to win the NL Rookie of the Year in 2019.

Either way, it’s exciting to see all of these young players coming up through the system.

Before we get into our top ten, here are the ones who just missed the cut: 1993 – Greg McMichael; 1994 – Ryan Klesko; 1998 – Kerry Ligtenberg; 2008 – Jair Jurrjens; and 2013 – Julio Teheran.