ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel has released his annual ranking of each Major League Baseball team’s core talent pool. McDaniel started doing this back in 2022 and in each season ever since then, the Atlanta Braves have been ranked very highly in each of those rankings. The good news is that even though this has been a disastrous season for Atlanta, McDaniel’s outlook on their core hasn’t changed too much. While they have been knocked off of their perch of being No. 1 in 2022 and 2023 and being No. 2 in 2024, a Top-5 ranking here in 2025 is still nothing to sneeze at.

Here’s part of McDaniel’s reasoning behind his high ranking for the Braves (and I highly suggest that y’all go ahead and check out the entire thing just to get a lay of the land as far as the outlook for MLB goes):

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