Somewhere along the line the natural progression of minor league players moved from a year at every stop along the way, from Rookie Ball to AAA and all points in between, to AAA often being skipped in favor of going from AA to the Majors. Jake Peavy made the leap from Mobile in AA to the Padres in 2002 while Mat Latos in 2009 went from AA San Antonio to the majors as did Chase Headley two years earlier before being asked in 2008 to learn a new position at AAA. Indeed, since 2011 the only players who have had more than 30 games as a position player or pitched in more than a dozen games at AAA El Paso or Tuscon to have any sort of impact at the major league level are Jedd Gyorko, Yasmani Grandal, Brad Boxberger, Kevin Quackenbush, Nick Vincent and some guy named Rizzo that we are just not going to talk about in this article.
Jemile Weeks called up, Manuel Margot and Hunter Renfroe await Padres call
