Angels vs. Reds Gamethread

BUT BUT BUUUTTT! One sorry ass player who got cut from our farm was in an article. This is all the proof you need! Also, it is indeed possible to find orgs that are better at this than ours. Thus we are the worst.

Of course, one could ask some current and former farm hands.

I have. First, you’re right. The Pandemic killing host family systems was what was happening when Arte was exposed as Pol Pot.

Also fun to ignore. A lot of that stuff is actually handled by the MiLB team itself. Not the MLB club. At least that’s what guys I know played in the MiLB told me.

Other fun facts. Most players will buddy up and rent a place with money they have stashed away from off season work and signing bonuses. Few players rely on their paycheck, and if they are it’s because they WANT to play MiLB baseball very badly even if they didn’t get any money ahead of time.

Food is also partly the MLB team and partly the locals. From what I hear it’s a bunch of protein powder and electrolytes in most cases. There is a “snack” in most cases. But teams don’t tend to “feed their guys”. That’s the player’s job.

From what I have been told by players who have and have not been in the Angels system things very from stop to stop within a system and we are just meh. The only names I recall being called bad regularly were the A’s and the Pirates. But it sounded more like certain cities were bad…. like it sounded like Jupiter, Inland Empire and Augusta were not popular, even among guys who hadn’t played there, while I remember at least a couple guys saying Omaha is supposed to be nice.

I’m not sure there actually ARE any teams that house and feed their entire MiLB farm at every stop. I haven’t heard of any, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t out there…. probably the fkn Doyers….

The things players seem to REALLY care about are physio staff, weight rooms, and tools that help them hit/pitch better.

That’s been my limited experience when I asked guys I’ve met or coaches who have worked in farm systems.

But aside from all of that Arte is the worst ever.