Comments on: Class AAA: Southern Development http://milwaukee.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/09/21/class-aaa-southern-development/ Just another Baseball Prospectus Local Sites site Tue, 13 Nov 2018 16:53:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: kf71 http://milwaukee.locals.baseballprospectus.com/2018/09/21/class-aaa-southern-development/#comment-25412 Fri, 21 Sep 2018 13:51:04 +0000 http://milwaukee.locals.baseballprospectus.com/?p=12582#comment-25412 The situation is no doubt an improvement overall, but I don’t think your travel argument works. For one, Colorado Springs has its own airport with several daily flights to O’Hare, plus other hubs with connections to Milwaukee. So unless you have a source that says the Brewers make their call-ups drive to DIA from CS, or from O’Hare to Miller Park, I am skeptical a team would subject their players to such unnecessary travel when they have the means to avoid it.

Furthermore, flights from Denver or Colorado Springs to Chicago or Milwaukee aren’t much over two hours, while flights from San Antonio to Chicago are ever so slightly longer, and require a connection to get to Milwaukee, either through a Texas airport or Chicago. The travel situation is at best the same, as SA-MKE is comparable or perhaps more unfavorable in terms of distance and flight options as CS-MKE. Having an affiliate in San Antonio is clearly better than Colorado Springs in many areas, but travel is not one of them.

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