Is MLB evaluating possible 2009 crew assignments already?

[bobbybanaduck]

Originally Posted by goyanksgonj

Recent crew assignment changes (for games of Saturday 7/12/08):


In effect, when all is said and done:

Beal for Vanover
Campos for Randazzo
Johnson for Carlson
Tichenor for Darling
Fairchild for T. Welke
Hudson for AAA/Poncino
Guccione for Rapuano
Drake for Wegner
Knight for Reed
Causey for Gibson
Barry for Hirschbeck

That's 4 out of 15 crew chiefs out for one reason or another, plus another 2 on crew vacation, making a total of 6 out of 17.

What's the big idea here?

if you simply MUST know what is going on, it is likey a combination of vacation time and all of the injuries that have occurred up there this year. ALL of the guys you listed in the left colum, save for marvin, are AAA guys that are up filling in, so that has absoultely zero to do with assignments for next year. they have probably been swapping full time guys around to try and have as few crews as possible that have 2 AAA guys on the field at the same time, though that has been the case on multiple occasions this year.