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Making The Pieces Fit: "For a farm director, putting together his organization's minor league rosters is a bit like putting together a jigsaw puzzle. Once the general manager narrows the major league roster down to 25 players, each farm director has to allocate 24 players to his Triple-A team, 24 to his Double-A squad, 25 to high Class A and 25 to low Class A. It's up to the general manager and the scouting department to acquire the pieces; it's the farm director's job to put that 98-piece puzzle together. And sometimes the pieces need to be forced into spots where they don't quite seem to fit." (Via Baseball America.) An interesting article, that includes a section on why the SF Giants second 2007 pick Tim Alderson made the jump to San Jose over their first pick Madison Bumgarner. It also discusses how weather differences played into the Giants sending Manny Burriss to Fresno instead of Norwich.
Posted by Tom Clifton on 4/24/08; 10:38:19 AM
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