It’s that time of year again, when MLB teams make their selections from their minor league systems to send to the Arizona Fall League. The AFL can serve a lot of different purposes for the players being sent, depending upon what their season has looked like, where they are in their development, and what they still need to work on or learn.
Most of the time, the AFL is seen as sort of prospect finishing school, the short postseason league where teams send their brightest stars to compete against the best of the other organisations. The level of competition is, generally speaking, the highest that any of the prospects sent will see until they get to the majors, considering how the AFL is often viewed as a bit of an all-star league.