Cody Ransom to replace Drew?

[Lefty]

Looks like the Diamondbacks are going to call up Cody Ransom, who just left the game in the 6th inning.

http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?pos=&sid=t2310&t=p_pbp&pid=285068

 

[Zeno]

Do the Diamondbacks have one of the oldest AAA teams in baseball?

Look at some of the players called up recently...

Ransom 35
Pena 29
Burroughs 30
Brazoban 31
Castillo 36

Then when you look at the Reno roster you see the youngest on the roster is almost 25? most guys are around 27-28

 

[TJ]

Official per KTAR.

D-Backs called Ransom up

 

[Gaddabout]

Do the Diamondbacks have one of the oldest AAA teams in baseball?

Pretty much, for a lot of good reasons:

1) The PCL is such a hitter's league it's almost a waste to form young everyday talent there.

2) The D-Backs are a team of mismatched parts as it is. They signed a lot of veterans and long-shots to the AAA team as a way to create depth without having to push the young guys up too quickly.

3) The D-Backs farm system is still another year or two away from being rebuilt. They don't have a lot of guys who could make an argument they belong there. The best everyday prospects are still very young.

I was a Dodgers fan back in the 80s and they did this often with Albuquerque. In fact the entire farm system was loaded with veterans. They rarely wasted a contract on a wash out. The idea was to create a sense of professionalism from the very start. It definitely helped in the early 80s, but I think their scouting department started to fall apart and by the late 80s the farm system was total garbage (save for a few real gems) after about a 25-year run as perhaps the model farm system.