Atlanta Braves minor league players

Drake Randall Baldwin (born March 28, 2001) is an American professional baseball catcher in the Atlanta Braves organization.

Baldwin attended Madison West High School in Madison, Wisconsin, where he played baseball and ice hockey. As a junior in 2018, he led the state of Wisconsin with 43 goals scored.

Baldwin enrolled at Missouri State University to play college baseball. He played in 17 games during a shortened season in 2020, and then played 43 games in 2021, batting .291 with four home runs and 24 RBIs. During the summer of 2021, he played in the Northwoods League for the Madison Mallards and batted .316 with four home runs over 52 games. Baldwin became a strong prospect for the upcoming draft as a junior in 2022, in which he hit .341 with 19 home runs and seventy home runs over sixty games. After the season, he was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the third round with the 96th overall pick of the 2022 Major League Baseball draft.

Baldwin made his professional debut in 2022 with the Florida Complex League Braves and also played with the Augusta GreenJackets, hitting .258 over 24 games. He opened the 2023 season with the Rome Braves, was promoted to the Mississippi Braves in late August, and was promoted once again in September to the Gwinnett Stripers. Over 109 games between the three teams, he slashed .270/.384/.460 with 16 home runs and 61 RBIs. He opened the 2024 season with Mississippi and was promoted to Gwinnett in June. Baldwin was selected to represent the Braves in the All-Star Futures Game at Globe Life Field.

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