Al addressed many problems with the current proposal to radically restructure and eliminate 42 minor league teams in yesterday’s article. I’ll try to repeat him too much in this piece.
Let’s stipulate a few things before we get into what this proposal is really about.
First, there probably are too many minor league teams and too many minor league levels than are necessary to produce major league talent. It’s clear to anyone who has watched a Low-A Midwest League game that there are usually (and generously) three or four players on each team with a real shot at playing regularly in the majors and another four or five who could be part-time role players or bullpen pitchers.