High-Time In The Desert

Fall is in the air, which means two things in baseball. The first and most obvious is that playoff baseball has arrived, a spectacle that the Cardinals unfortunately missed out on yet again this year. This post isn’t about investigating that particular fiasco, although there is an obscene amount of rich content down that particular rabbit hole. No, this post is about the capstone to prospecting season, the Arizona Fall League.

The Arizona Fall League, or AFL, is a sort of finishing school for prospects. It is a collection of the games best prospects, representatives sent by their respective organizations to duke it out under the hot desert sun. It isn’t just an all-star league, though, as…