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Swanson, Weigel named Braves Prospects of the Year
- Updated: October 10, 2016
ATLANTA — Unlike Dansby Swanson, Patrick Weigel remains a relatively obscure figure in the baseball world. But as Weigel spent this year progressing through his first full professional season, many Braves fans took notice and began to recognize him as one of the most intriguing pitchers in a farm system loaded with talented young arms.
Weigel will now be an even more recognizable figure as he was named pitcher of the year when MLBPipeline.com revealed the Braves’ Prospects of the Year. Likely to nobody’s surprise, Swanson was named the player of the year.
MLBPipeline.com ranks Swanson as the Braves’ top prospect and baseball’s No. 4 overall prospect. Weigel ranks as the No. 28 prospect in Atlanta’s talent-rich system.
Swanson has been recognized as a special talent dating back to when the D-backs took him with the first overall selection in the 2015 Draft. The suburban Atlanta native was acquired by the Braves via a blockbuster trade in December 2015 and then progressed through his first full …
