On its website, the Larry H. Miller Company, owner of the Salt Lake Bees, announced the Salt Lake Bees will move into a new stadium in 2025. That new ballpark will be constructed in the Salt Lake City area, in Daybreak, a master-planned community in South Jordan, Utah, to be exact. Unlike many other Minor …
Origin of Minor League Team Names, a Reprise: S
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: S Sacramento …
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Angels and Bees extend PDC
The Los Angeles Angels and their AAA minor league club, the Salt Lake Bees have extended their Player Development Contract. The new contract will run through the 2022 season. The new extension comes at a time that the current one was far from expired yet as it ends after the 2020 season. But apparently, the …
Baseball in Portland (OR), a good idea or not?
According to a report at Oregonlive.com, a potential ownership group is gaining momentum in their attempt to lure Major League Baseball to Portland. With Portland's history with professional baseball, you may wonder if that is a good idea. The potential owners have been talking with the city in private. Even though the city has faced …
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Salt Lake Bees to welcome 12 millionth fan
The Salt Lake Bees, AAA affiliate of the Anaheim Angels in the Pacific Coast League, hosted 4,155 fans in last night's game (a 9-3 win over the Reno Aces). With this number of fans, the club is only 10,230 away from reaching the 12 million mark. After the Portland Beavers, who replaced the independent …
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Curaçao Neptunus adds American pitcher
Reigning Dutch champion, Curaçao Neptunus, has added a left-handed pitcher to their roster. American Trevor Reckling will be the extra arm the club desperately needed after Loek van Mil and Orlando Yntema hit the disabled list. With the current wave of pitchers hitting the DL, one could wait for the move by the Rotterdam based …
Reshuffling AAA baseball, worth a thought?
At the end of last season, two California League teams were moved to the East coast to join the Carolina League. The ten team CAL League shrunk to eight teams, while the Carolina League grew to a ten. The reason for this move was purely financial, as the two teams that were moved, the High …
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Hainley Statia appointed to Brew Crew minor league coaching staff
In the mean time this is old news, but nowhere in the Dutch press there was given any attention to this feat so far. Long time Brewers farmhand Hainley Statia has been added to the coaching staff of one of the Brewers' minor league teams; in this case the Arizona Brewers. Hainley will become one …
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Minor League affiliation news: Another PDC extension
After the previous article on the PDC extension between the Toronto Blue Jays and the New Hampshire FisherCats there is more to tell about PDC extensions. The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (gawd I hate that name), have extended the Player Development Contract with the Salt Lake Bees through 2018. The teams have been in …
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Origin of Minor League team names: S
S Sacramento RiverCats: The word River refers to the Sacramento river. It isn’t the first ball club where a characteristic of the area and the word “cat” are put together to create a name for the club. Salem Red Sox: Another fine example of a club run and owned by the parent club with the …
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