Welcome to the Bus Ride 2009, SpikesnStars original contributor content. This is place for all things minor leagues for the Houston Astros. The Bus Ride is your primary source for minor league articles including draft reviews, top tens, minor league interviews and analysis. We want to give you Astros minor league information as an introduction if you’ve not followed the young players coming up and resource information you can use once they make the show. The Astros have minor league affiliates in each level of minor league baseball (AAA, AA, high-A, low-A, short-season-A, and rookie league). AAA is populated by just about every kind of player from prospects to hangers-on to roster filler to guys with mlb experience hoping to make the big club. AA is usually populated by advanced prospects and roster filler. From A-ball on down you’ll find prospects of all sort hoping to develop into major league material. The short season-A and rookie level leagues generally play from late June to early September whereas the full season leagues will play from April to September. Because prospects are always developing a simple look at their statistics may not tell you the whole story, so We’ll try to dig a little deeper for you and pump sources to provide you more than just boxscore views of the kids. Stick around, we think you’ll like reading about the 2009 version of your Houston Astros farm system.
