I was never happy about going back to school, but I didn't care about the first day because that was basically just a waste. The get to know you crap and the syllabus was basically all that happened in the first day of classes.
That shouldn't matter. You don't bring your top prospects up and put them on the bench. The fact that it looks like Macha is going to do this with our top two prospects is just incompetence.
You make a lot of good and interesting points, but this one I just can't buy. You know what profession you're getting into. You know you're going to be on long road trips if you're a baseball beat writer.
Minorleaguebaseball has him at a .55 GO/AO and minorleaguesplits has his GB% at 30.6% this year and 39.2% in his career. That's certainly not a ground ball pitcher and certainly not 1:1.
I don't know what to make of Bowden. He's not really striking out guys in AAA and he's an extreme flyball pitcher. His results don't match his stuff imo.