Orioles Show Path To Majors Doesn't Necessarily Go Through Triple-A

[PressBoxOnline]

Buck Showalter on the differences between Double-A and Triple-A:"The way Triple-A clubs are looked at nowadays compared to the way they used to, they're taxi squads. … It used to be prospects got finished off there, but if you look at Double-A baseball nowadays, that's where most of the up and coming, the projection prospects, are. That's where most of the trades are happening from."

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2017/09/19/orioles-show-path-to-majors-doesnt-necessarily-go-through-triple-a

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, PressBoxOnline said:

Buck Showalter on the differences between Double-A and Triple-A:"The way Triple-A clubs are looked at nowadays compared to the way they used to, they're taxi squads. … It used to be prospects got finished off there, but if you look at Double-A baseball nowadays, that's where most of the up and coming, the projection prospects, are. That's where most of the trades are happening from."

https://www.pressboxonline.com/2017/09/19/orioles-show-path-to-majors-doesnt-necessarily-go-through-triple-a

Huh, that sounds familiar.

 

[Frobby]

Of the 10 players who debuted this year who have the highest WAR, 8 of them were promoted from AAA.     Some had only a few weeks or a month or two there, others had played a full season.  So, I think Buck's description of AAA as a taxi squad is a bit exaggerated.

PS - for 2016, it was 9 out of 10.