Here at Athletics Nation we follow the Oakland A’s farm system quite closely. Foremost, we’ve got our own crowdsourced Top 30 list. Beyond that, there’s a whole other set of fringe guys we keep an eye on. And then there’s the rest of the org filler, who aren’t on the radar but occasionally do something interesting. This post is about the limbo between those last two groups, the no-names aspiring to climb into the fringes of relevancy.
We already talk a lot about the upper minors, between Triple-A Nashville and Double-A Midland, so today we’re sticking in the lower minors — that is, the various levels of A-ball.