Pipeline Alchemy took a few minutes to think up. I wanted my new catch-all article to be a new term, preferably one hinting at system development. “Organization” or “System” were considered. However, when I pulled the Alchemy quiver out of the bow, nothing made more sense. Pipeline Alchemy is for articles that don’t entirely fit anywhere else.
A lead-in to Chemistry, alchemy sought to, in a basic sense, take less valuable metals, and turn them into silver or gold. Which is, largely, what a baseball organization seeks to do.
Take that starter in the Mid-American Conference, and turn him into an MLB closer.