Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
September 07, 2008
Travis-Ty?

MLB Fanhouse wonders if Travis Hafner should be playing in the AA playoffs. He hit a game winning home run against Bowie Saturday night.

I'm sure the fine people of Akron are excited about the Aeros going to the next round of the playoffs, and I'm sure the team is stoked if they're pouring chocolate milk on each other ... and that's wonderful. Far be it from me to minimize the joy that everyone is feeling. But Travis Hafner in the AA playoffs, after already playing seven games at AAA Buffalo, is ridiculous. Send him to the majors if he's healthy, or shut him down until next year. But don't make him play minor league playoff games if he needs thirty minutes of treatment after games so that he can hit game changing home runs against the Bowie Baysox. Because what exactly is the point of all this besides providing a small boost to the Akron economy?

On the other hand, minor league rosters get raided by the major league team all the time. That makes it tough to root for a team to win, since you don't know if the best players are going to be around at the end of the season so the team can win. Maybe this is a little payback for that.


Posted by David Pinto at 10:11 AM | Minor Leagues | TrackBack (0)
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Colon went against Phil Hughes in AAA today. The minors are for development.

Posted by: bandit at September 7, 2008 08:26 PM

Somehow somebody manages the supposedly difficult feat of rooting for minor league teams. The minors just set a new record for tickets sold this year, something the majors probably won't accomplish.

It's the fifth consecutive record for ticket sales in the minor leagues. They've now gone over 43 million tickets sold for the first time ever.

David Pinto's lament is just the old Bill James whine that the minors are "dead". As is so often the case, James is full of it. The minors have never been in better health.

Posted by: Casey Abell at September 8, 2008 08:05 AM
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