You'd have to be a really clumsy numbnuts to not be ready to man 1B in short season ball. Not to mention that I don't really understand how defense gets so appreciably harder by the level to where you would wait for progress at one level before furthering development at another. This has been bothering me as well. It's not like the balls are going to come at him any differently in Boise. Why not work on any defensive problems at Boise while actually being challenged by pitching?
What the heck is his deal, anyway? there are two players mentioned in his post, which are you talking about? My apologies. I was asking about Rademacher.
Feel free to add the Nationals to the race if you hadn't already. http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/washington-nationals-stephen-strasburg-inning-limit-pitching-options-dempster-greinke-liriano-071712-
Hmm... Switch Marco Hernandez and Gioskar Amaya's positions. Try Trey Martin (or Bijan Rademacher?) instead of Kevin Encarnacion and Justin Marra instead of Chadd Krist (who should be at Daytona next year). Especially considering Rademacher is already there.