They did not have much of a choice but after a delay of a week, the Fresno Grizzlies agreed on staying in affiliated ball but at a lower level though. ”Negotiations between MLB and the city of Fresno to keep the Grizzlies in affiliated baseball have gone into extra innings, but a resolution is at hand,”…
After the Houston Astros announced they would drop their AAA affiliate Round Rock Express in favour of the then independent Sugar Land Skeeters, the question arose who would fill the void the Astros left. Several sources are saying that the Texas Rangers are close to hammer out a deal with the AAA Pacific Coast League…
According to local newspaper the Fresno Bee, MLB has given the Fresno Grizzlies more time to find a solution for the stalemate the club is in right now. How much time the club will get is not clear. Major League Baseball has given the Fresno Grizzlies more time to work out the fate of the…
With a joined statement of the current Mayor and the Mayor-Elect of Fresno, the city made clear that it is backing the Fresno Grizzlies in their quest for AAA baseball. In the statement, both local politicians claim that thanks to the award winning seasons the club had and thanks to the investments the club made…
MLB showed its true colors, if it had not done that already, by putting Fresno in the stocks. According to the Fresno Bee, MLB has told the city of Fresno and the local (former) AAA team Grizzlies to accept a demotion to Low A or not having affiliated ball at all. Understandably, both the Grizzlies…
The minor league landscape is slowly changing. After the agreement between MLB and MiLB expired, MLB has taken controle and it shows. The other day, the Yankees announced to adopt two new MiLB franchises, leaving their former farm teams in Staten Island , Charleston and Trenton behind. Now it is the turn for the Minnesota…
Even though no new deal is in place yet, several changes in the minor leagues slowly become clear. Not only will some clubs move to different levels, even complete leagues will switch to different levels. Especially at the various A ball levels, there will be quite some changes. The California League and Florida State League…
Back in 2014, I wrote a series of blog posts about the origin of minor league team names. Since then, the minor league landscape has changed a lot. Clubs moved, adopted new names. All reasons to have a new series in which the new names are added and explained. This time the letter: F Fayetteville…
According to Baseball America, there will be a video conference between Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball on Wednesday. According to the baseball magazine, a source with insight into the thinking of both parties, MLB and MiLB have already agreed on a number of the major outstanding issues regarding the contraction of 42 MiLB…
The 2019 World Series between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals had a lot of firsts. We will sum them up for you. This year’s World Series had the first player whose family name started with a Z, to hit a home run (Ryan Zimmerman). Zimmerman was also the first player to homer for…
