I was thinking the same thing. Many top prospects have never set foot in Minnesota. So why not put a guy in a first-class seat on a plane a day after his start, have a limo driver meet him and bring him to the ballpark, give him a taste of the major league clubhouse and food, put him up at the visiting team's hotel, have him pitch off the Target Field mound instead of some grubby bullpen for his between-starts work, and send him home in similar style a couple of days later with a keener sense of just how close he is to never having to travel an inter-city charter bus* to a game again, if he continues his rate of progress. * I guess AAA uses aircraft a lot of the time. Poetic license.