In 1965, the first year of the amateur draft and last year the Braves were located in Milwaukee, the club showed some ability to identify talent.
John McHale was running the team’s front office, and, despite his reputation of not valuing young talent, was doing a pretty good job of at least finding young players through the new-fangled draft. They selec…
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