Brandon Hicks News

Fresh off the hot Billy Wagner signing, its time for 5 more Braves prospects! Today, I'll discuss numbers 25 through 21..and hey look, that leaves 20-16 for Thursday, and 15-11 for Fridaywill I do the top ten over the weekend, or force myself to do ten a day each of the next 2 days? Or wait until the beginning of next week to make you guys wait, ...

For those of you who have actually looked over my profile, you know that Carl Crawford listed first on my Short List under "Favorite Athletes." To expand on that positioning, Carl Crawford is my favorite baseball player/athlete/celebrity/everything. Speed, defense, average, a little pop, and hustle.

On Thursday, Mike Leake put an exclamation point on a year in which he led the nation in wins for Arizona State University, was a Golden Spikes finalist and was selected by Cincinnati in the first round of the Draft.

Reese Havens is finishing his five-week stint in the Arizona Fall League on a roll.

Phoenix a ' Greetings from the desert Southwest, where it's a cloudless day with the temperature headed to 90 and another slate of Arizona Fall League games starting at 12:30 p.m. before intimate gatherings that are typically made up of couple dozen scouts and about 75-100 others including autograph hounds, girlfriends, potential girlfriends and ...

Donnie Veal pitched 4 shutout innings and earned his second AFL win on Saturday afternoon.

Top 20 Atlanta Braves Prospects for 2010. All grades are EXTREMELY PRELIMINARY and subject to change.

The Mississippi Braves played 138 games this season, but if you had to choose only one to capture the essence of their year, Aug.

ZEBULON, N.C. - Ole Miss alumnus Zack Cozart drove in three runs, two in a four-run, seventh-inning rally, to lead Carolina to an 8-7 win over Mississippi on Friday night.

Four pitchers combined on a four-hitter, and Jon Owings and Brandon Hicks hit home runs as the Mississippi Braves shut out the Carolina Mudcats 5-0 on Sunday in the Southern League season finale at Five County Stadium.

Logan Parker singled with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, and Carolina earned its sixth straight victory by beating Mississippi 3-2 at Five County Stadium on Saturday night.

The M-Braves notched their second straight win over the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx Monday night at Trustmark Park.

Wednesday 02 Sep 2009 Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 09:30AM PEARL, MISS. - The M-Braves win their third straight over the Diamond Jaxx on Tuesday night, 4-2, pushing the Jaxx into second place in the Southern League North.

PEARL, Miss. - Mississippi's Brandon Hicks scored Travis Jones on a ninth-inning sacrifice fly to walk off with a 5-4 win against West Tenn on Friday in Pearl, Miss.

Photo by Tim Evearitt James Tomlin is tagged out at second base as he tried to turn a first inning single into a double.

Mississippi's Jason Heyward showed fans at AT&T Field why he is the talk of baseball on Saturday night.

Minor league outfielder Jason Heyward and first baseman Freddie Freeman headline this year's Braves class of invitees to the Arizona Fall League.

Lookouts starting pitcher James Adkins combined with relievers Kendy Batista and Harvey Garcia to shut out the M-Braves, 8-0, in Tuesday night action at AT&T Field.

Photo by Tim Evearitt Jason Heyward tripled in his first at bat. A crowd of 5,230 fans, including many Braves' fans, were on hand at AT&T Field for Saturday's game between the Lookouts and the Mississippi Braves.

PEARL - Matt Young found the bases, and the Mississippi Braves found another victory Wednesday night, vaulting over .500 for the second half of the Southern League season.