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Road to Atlanta - Episode 17 - Braves trade deadline post mortem and listener mailbag Aug 02, 2019

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After being off a week, this week's episode focuses on reflecting on the prospects that were sent elsewhere including talk about Joey Wentz, Travis Demeritte, and Kolby Allard. After that, we talk about what we are expecting through the end of the season for guys like Drew Waters, Cristian Pache, Ian Anderson, and the like. Eric rants a bit about Luiz Gohara and people being designated for assignment as though it was this shocking thing. Finally, we take listener questions about the most difficult promotions for pitchers to adjust to, Greyson Jenista's recent hot streak, and much more. Enjoy!

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Episode 177: Wrapping up a busy trade deadline Aug 01, 2019

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Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman in pseudo-emergency fashion to break down a busy, bullpen-heavy trade deadline for the Atlanta Braves.

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Episode 176: Injury fallout and deadline look-ahead Jul 29, 2019

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Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to discuss the fallout from recent injuries, look ahead to the trade deadline and much more.

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Episode 175: The deadline is coming Jul 23, 2019

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Brad is joined by TC's Eric Cole to discuss the upcoming trade deadline, the return of Ender Inciarte and much more.

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Road to Atlanta - Episode 16 - Talking Bryce Ball, Joey Wentz, Alex Jackson, plus more mailbag questions! Jul 19, 2019

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In this week's episode, we first tackled a few guys who have looked really strong of late including Bryce Ball's torrid run down in rookie ball, Tristan Beck's strong return from injury, Joey Wentz ratcheting up his strikeout numbers, and Alex Jackson tearing the cover off the ball. We are more excited about some of those performances than others. After that, we took a bunch of listener questions and answered them including discussion of Ian Anderson, the Braves' proficiency in developing hitters, as well as our favorite MiLB parks. We hope you enjoy this one.

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Episode 174: Breaking out the brooms in San Diego Jul 15, 2019

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Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to discuss MLB All-Star festivities, Atlanta's sweep in San Diego, Dallas Keuchel, Josh Donaldson, Marcus Stroman, Matthew Boyd, prospects and more.

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Road to Atlanta - Episode 15 - Recapping the Talking Chop Top 30 Braves Prospects List Jul 13, 2019

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In this week's episode, we focused solely on the prospect rankings we rolled out this past week over on Talking Chop. From discussing our unanimous top prospect Cristian Pache and how he had separated himself from the pack to discussing why some guys (looking at you, Luiz Gohara) didn't make the list at all, Matt and Eric go in depth into how the list was formulated, some of the harder calls that had to be made, and whether or not there were any surprises once we actually got the list finalized. We also took a few questions from folks over on Twitter to answer to make sure we didn't forget anything super important. Thanks again to everyone for reading the site this week and enjoy!

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Episode 173 - Recapping the Braves' first half and other fun with Eric Cole and Scott Coleman Jul 07, 2019

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In this week's episode of the Talking Chop podcast, you will notice a decided lack of Ozzie Albies trade proposals and references to Michigan sports and the curse of Atlanta sports. That is because Brad is on location in Vegas covering the NBA Summer League. As a result, you are stuck with Eric handling main host duties. My condolences. Fortunately, Scott was able to join me to cover a whole lot of ground in Brad's absence.

Enclosed in said podcast you will find topics covered including:

- Recapping the Braves' awesome first half of the season

- Our MVPs and LVPs for the Braves from the first half of the season

- Discussing the injured and rehabbing Braves including Anthony Swarzak, Dansby Swanson, and Ender Inciarte

- Looking back at the games from the last week or so

- Recovering from a crazy 9th inning in Sunday's game versus the Marlins

- An early look at trade deadline targets

- Much, much more

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Road to Atlanta - Episode 14 - Futures Game, Injury Updates, and Teasing our Top 30 prospects list Jul 06, 2019

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In this week's episode of Road to Atlanta, we first look at the Futures Game selections for the Braves. The virtues of Ian Anderson and Cristian Pache are talked about quite a bit as well as cases made for Drew Waters and Kyle Muller because, well, we are greedy and would have loved to see some more Braves. Then, we talk about the status of some injured prospects including Freddy Tarnok, Tristan Beck, Corbin Clouse, CJ Alexander, and Victor Vodnik while mourning the retirement of all-around good dude Derian Cruz. After all of that, each of us talk about a couple of guys that are trending up on our personal rankings as well as some that are trending downward as a little bit of a teaser for our Top 30 Braves Prospects List that will be rolling out on Talking Chop during the All-Star break. Enjoy!

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Episode 172: Welcome to July Jul 01, 2019

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Brad is joined by TC's Scott Coleman to discuss All-Star selections, strong bullpen performance (before Sunday), the rest conundrum and much more.

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