Next Year's Triple A Team

[50PoundHead]

Thing is there are some useful players who languish in AAA a long time. Brooks Conrad (at least his bat as opposed to his glove) was a useful bench player for us for a couple years. Brandon Moss spent a lot of time in AAA and seemed to disappoint whenever he got called up. But the last two years, he's been a solid contributor to a playoff team. The Mets have a kid named Josh Satin (well he's not such a kid at age 28) whose numbers I've been looking at the last couple years and thinking he might be a useful player. He only got the proverbial cup of coffee in the bigs in 2011 and 2012, but this year is finally getting a real opportunity and doing very well with it.

Of course there are useful players in AAA. I don't think that was the point of my post. Moss is probably the new Jack Cust. He'll stick around for awhile. There was simply a mad rush a few years back where a segment of analysts seemed to believe that anyone who put up a .900 OPS in AAA warranted a full big league shot that I found a bit simplistic.