NORTH PORT, Fla. -- Michael Harris lived up to lofty expectations during his first full professional season last year. Now, the Braves prospect is ready to take his next step toward potentially becoming a star at the Major League level.

Harris and Shea Langeliers headline the prospects who will be present when the Braves open their Minor League camp at CoolToday Park on Sunday. The camp will be open to each of the club’s players not currently on the 40-man roster.

Approximately 140 players will participate in workouts over the next week and then begin playing games at some point during the middle of March.

“Minor League Spring Training is operating like Minor League Spring Training would,” Braves assistant general manager Ben Sestanovich said. “I think all of these guys are excited to get started.”

Langeliers was part of big league camp the past two years, and Harris experienced his first big league camp last year. Without that option currently available, they will begin their preparations in a different manner this year.

But making adjustments is nothing new for these two, or for any of the players who have been selected since the 2019 MLB Draft.

Langeliers was selected out of Baylor University with the ninth overall pick in 2019; the Braves grabbed Harris with a third-round selection the same year. Both players played just over 50 Minor League games that summer and then saw the 2020 season erased by COVID-19.

Instead of their development being completely halted in 2020, the pair took advantage of being selected to work out at the team’s alternate training site at Triple-A Gwinnett’s Coolray Field.

Harris was just 19 years old and a couple months into his professional career. But the suburban Atlanta native lived about 20 minutes south of Turner Field and the Braves development staff was excited to see how he might fare against more experienced competition.

The young phenom drew rave reviews from Nick Markakis and other veterans who spent some time at the alternate training site. Harris' success created the buzz that surrounded him before he hit .294 with seven homers and a .798 OPS at High-A Rome last year. He was successful with 27 of 31 stolen base attempts and won a Minor League Rawlings Gold Glove Award.

Harris ranks as the Braves’ No. 4 prospect and baseball’s No. 89 prospect per MLB Pipeline.

“He played really well on all sides of the ball, which was really exciting to see,” Sestanovich said. “We’re really excited to see him continue to take strides this year.”

There’s never been any doubt about the defensive potential of Langeliers, who already ranks among the game’s elite catchers from a throwing perspective. As for his offensive potential, well he quieted some doubters when he hit 22 homers and produced an .836 OPS in 92 games at Double-A Mississippi last year.

Langeliers ranks as the Braves' No. 2 prospect and baseball’s No. 69 prospect per MLB Pipeline.

“We saw him hold his own at the alternate site the summer before, and we saw him hit a lot of balls hard,” Sestanovich said. “So I don’t think the power production was as much of a surprise to those of us who had been around him.”