Prospects, baseball, sunshine: Plan a trip to the Arizona Fall League

Spring Training is a fantastic vacation, but it has some downsides. The first and foremost is the cost; there are only so many places to stay and cars to drive in the Valley of the Sun, which means that prices are at their peak during Spring Training. Once you’re there, you will occasionally see some superstar MLB regulars in games, but not regularly, and often for only a few innings at a time before they yield to the Triple-A players and journeyman spring tryouts of the organization. And while many of the games are reasonably priced, woe betide you if your vacation happens to overlap with a game at Scottsdale Stadium or Camelback Ranch, especially on a weekend, when prices can be easily double what you’d expect to pay to get into T-Mobile on a weekend.