Promotion Politics: The How, When, and Why of Prospect Progression Through MiLB

A peek into the positive and negative indicators of prospect development

Over the past couple of years, the Angels have made some noise with, to put it mildly, their aggressive promotion strategy. Last year, they stuck Nelson Rada in Double-A at just 18 years old, and over the past two years, they’ve had Christian Moore on the hyper-fast track up to the show. He played in just 79 MiLB games, in which he performed well but no…