Atlanta Braves: 3 Prospects Likely to be Traded at Deadline

We take a look at three Atlanta Braves prospects that are likely being dangled as trade bait with the deadline approaching on August 31.

This won’t be much different than the article I wrote during the offseason looking at five Atlanta Braves prospects that could be traded.

But now that we have a little more information on these players I wanted to narrow the list down to the three most likely candidates to be traded over the next week.

Keep in mind, that a player has to be on a team’s 60-man player pool in order to be traded during the 2020 season.

So if they’re not currently in that pool, they can’t be traded.

I’m assuming a team could quickly add a prospect to that pool if they needed to trade them, but then if they have to replace someone in that player pool then the person they remove can’t be added back.

That’s one of the many things that makes this trade deadline so unique and why we may not see a lot of deals go down.

The other reason is that just about every team in the National League is within five games of a playoff spot with a month to go. A lot of teams who don’t make the postseason a lot will likely ride this out for a chance in the playoffs.

And then you also have to consider that teams won’t be willing to give up much for rental players knowing you could only get one month out of them. Plus, this season could come to a screeching halt at any moment and you’d get nothing out of the trade.

But I do think Alex Anthopoulos and the Braves make a couple of small moves. However, I don’t expect there to be many — if any — blockbusters this trade deadline by any team.

I won’t do a separate article on prospects that seem untouchable, but I’ll say Cristian Pache, Ian Anderson, and Shea Langeliers are the only three I’d consider untouchable at this point.