My favorite time of the year is almost upon us: the start of the Major League Baseball season. And when my favorite time of the year, the start of the Major League Baseball season, arrives, it means that my second-favorite time of the year is right around the corner: the start of the Minor League Baseball season.
In my eyes, this is the most important season of Minor League Baseball since Farhan Zaidi took over as San Francisco Giants President of Baseball Operations after the 2018 season. We’re finally at a point where the slow drip of player development — slowed further by the pandemic wiping out Minor League Baseball in 2020 — should bear enough fruit from Zaidi’s tenure that we can get a better feel for how this regime has done in that department.