Must read content, player grades, stuff you can't get anywhere else. Coming into the game on Sunday they were just 17-25, and they have one of the worst offenses in the Southern League with a team batting average of just .228. The Braves heard all the comments at the ballpark, that Anderson was a generic right-hander who was a dime a dozen in the Minor Leagues, that he couldn’t even win his high school games, that he was a second or third rounder, at best. According to then Braves scouting director Brian Bridges, there was only one player that area scout Greg Morhardt had ever believed in as strongly as he did Ian Anderson prior to the 2016 Draft. They held the No. always enjoy the work...projected Pirate rotation in '24-'25 from those already in the organization?...thanks. 2 (Gavin Lux) ranked prospects in the sport entering the 2020 season. Then, during his junior year, Anderson pitched against 2015 first-round pick Garrett Whitley. The opponent for Sunday (May 19) was my hometown Birmingham Barons. He was sick his senior year and missed some starts. A regular on the showcase circuit, he was often among the top performers at any event he attended. He also helps my pet theory that there’s an easy shortcut to amateur scouting: just follow the recruits. He throws from a high slot, but it’s a loose, easy and flexible arm.”. Follow him on Twitter @JonathanMayo and Facebook, and listen to him on the weekly MLB Pipeline Podcast. That’s awesome.”. Build your custom FanSided Daily email newsletter with news and analysis on Atlanta Braves and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. Comparing him to the other right-handers immediately ahead of him on the Top 100, I'd give Anderson the nod over Max Meyer (Marlins, No. Bridges and company knew they’d have to wait for the weather to warm up and deal with the inevitable rainouts that happen with Northeast baseball, and then had to deal with Anderson being weakened by illness and an oblique injury. It’s unusual they go that high.”. 4) and Rangers right-hander Neftalí Feliz (No. Greg Morhardt. He believed in him. 23) and Matt Manning (Tigers, No. “It’s so unique; he’s different than guys who throw from up there,” Morhardt explained. “Bridge and Roy did the work, breaking the trend of taking a high school right-hander at 3. Behind Rocker, I'd line up the rest of the Pirates' future starters like this: Quinn Priester, Mitch Keller, Carmen Mlodzinski and Brennan Malone. It was just a wholesome family. They talk about their love for each other, they talk about the drive Ian had. Roy Clark and I saw one of his late starts, and he was upper-80s, touching 91 mph. That was back in 2009, when Morhardt was an area scout for the Angels and had New Jersey as part of his territory. 10). Anderson was one of the few prospects who got the chance to play in actual games this summer while retaining his rookie/prospect eligibility. Bridges knew exactly who he was when he hired him from the Angels. Other scouting reports I’ve seen say that Anderson sits 92-94 MPH with his fastball and that he can bump it up to 96. In late August, 22-year-old righthander Ian Andersonwas invaluable for the Braves’ decimated rotation. That raises the question: What if the Braves did have the No. Reported as the pre-2020 season number of waiver options remaining. We knew we could cut the slot, but we still believed he was the best player.”. ©2020 The Athletic Media Company. I wonder if that's ever happened before. 1 overall since the Draft began in 1965. Atlanta Braves: Mike Soroka, Ronald Acuna & Austin Riley lead team to victory, Atlanta Braves Suffer Heart Breaking Loss To Giants. October 14, 2020. The story behind surprise pick Ian Anderson. 31), Emerson Hancock (Mariners, No. Roy looked at me, and said, ‘Are you kidding me?’ I was feeling the same way.' That was the Braves highest pick in the MLB Draft since taking Mike Kelly second overall in the 1991 draft. Copyright © 2020 Baseball America Enterprises. Bats/Throws: R/R. This might not seem to have anything to do with the 22-year-old slated to start Game 2 of the National League Championship Series on Tuesday night against the Dodgers at Globe Life Field in Arlington. Anderson went on to become a regular on the showcase circuit. 6' 3" / 170. “We didn’t think Mickey Moniak or Nick Senzel (the top two picks in the Draft) were better than Ian, or guys throwing harder behind him [Riley Pint went No. He was at every event, I watched his interview at the PG game, just how mature he was, took it all to another level.”, “It was the game plan from the beginning,” said Morhardt, who joined the Braves from the Angels in 2015 and now scouts for the Red Sox. “You have to see him pitch in the spring, you wanted to make sure he was going in the right direction. I’m not going to shy away from it. A prep righty has never been taken No. “Was he really a mid-first-rounder? With that in my mind, I had to take the chance to get my eyes on Ian Anderson when he played the Birmingham Barons. October 15, 2020. 14 and Mike Soroka at No. Becomes a free agent entering the 2027 season, after the conclusion of the 2026 season. Watch Twins Tie Franchise Record with 8 Home Runs in 16-7 Win over Angels, Three takeaways as Atlanta Braves blast Giants behind Max Fried and homers, Atlanta Braves MLB Draft: Top 5 college bats to target, Atlanta Braves Shane Greene trade rumor just chatter. Follow @jimcallisMLB on Twitter. Any announcement won’t be made until during the day Monday, but the Braves made Touki Toussaint available out of the bullpen over the weekend and he appeared Sunday night. The wiry Vanderbilt signee showed a promising fastball in the summer, regularly sitting 89-93 and bumping 94. The arm action fans seen now from Anderson is pretty much the same as it was in high school: straight over the top. BA Newsletter: Get Analysis, Rankings Delivered To Your Inbox! As they have with previous prep arms, the Braves sent Anderson to full-season Rome for his first full professional year, and he was up for the challenge, pitching extremely well while under fairly tight usage restrictions. Already have the app? Major League and Minor League Baseball data provided by Major League Baseball. “It’s the way his arm works, it’s fluid, it’s not a rigid overhand. They held the No. That combined with what he and Clark had seen the previous summer and even that spring meant that Bridges never wavered once in his desire to add Anderson to the organization’s stable of good, young pitching. Rosenthal: On Ian Anderson and the triumph of good scouting for the Braves. Many inside the organization believe he could be the best Braves pitching prospect of all, and that he could one day lead the rotation. It was partially true.
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