Redbirds Draw Fans Despite Slump
The Memphis Redbirds' losing ways have hardly kept the fans away. The Redbirds (Pacific Coast) extended their losing streak to eight games over the weekend, but still managed to attract nearly 40,000...
View ArticleMLB Fires Jimmie Lee Solomon
Jimmie Lee Solomon, who once oversaw all of Major League Baseball's on-field operations, is now out at MLB. Two baseball sources confirmed that Solomon, whose current position was executive vice...
View ArticleCharlotte Knights Await Ballpark Vote Tonight
The Charlotte Knights’ most-important pitch of the night—if not the decade—will take place about 400 miles away from the International League affiliate’s game at the Columbus Clippers’ Huntington Park....
View ArticleCharlotte Knights Win Approval For New Ballpark
After 10 years of trying, the Charlotte Knights are finally getting their new ballpark. The Charlotte City Council voted 7-4 tonight to contribute $8 million toward a new downtown ballpark, the final...
View ArticleClearwater Threshers Ballpark Hit Hard By Storm
UPDATE: What a difference a day—and a good drainage system—makes. Less than 24 hours after the Clearwater Threshers' playing field was left submerged from the heavy rains of Tropical Storm Debby,...
View ArticleEl Paso Approves Ballpark Proposal
UPDATE: Since this story was originally published, the El Paso city council approved a proposal to build a Triple-A ballpark. The city council voted 6-2 to partner with MountainStar Sports Group LLC on...
View ArticleScranton/WB Readies For A New Name
Scranton/Wilkes-Barre is preparing to drop one of the most iconic names in baseball for a new one that promises to be a bit, well, less traditional. So long, Yankees. The Triple-A International League...
View ArticleRochester Sticking With The Twins
And then there was one. The Rochester Red Wings’ two-year extension of its player-development contract with the Minnesota Twins late last week leaves the Buffalo Bisons as the only International League...
View ArticleAre The Cubs Leaving Peoria?
Finishing near the bottom of the Midwest League standings may not be the worst thing to happen to the Peoria Chiefs this season. Seeing their eight-year affiliation with the Chicago Cubs come to an end...
View ArticleCubs-Kane County News Gets O’Conner’s Attention
Chicago fans weren’t the only ones to get worked up over this week’s news that the Cubs may have already agreed to move their low Class A affiliation from Peoria to Kane County in the Midwest League,...
View ArticleYankees Ink Eight-Year Extension With Trenton
The Yankees' player-development contract with Double-A Trenton was not set to expire for another two years, but that didn't stop New York from working out an eight-year extension with their Eastern...
View ArticleHurricane Isaac Ends New Orleans’ Season
The New Orleans Zephyrs' long road trip is finally over. Unfortunately, so is their season. Pacific Coast League president Branch Rickey III said the decision wasn't easy, but in the end he decided to...
View ArticleMinor League Attendance May Come Up Short
After the first three months of the season, minor league baseball seemed likely to shatter last season’s attendance mark and post its first increase at the gate in four years. As the final games of...
View ArticleEastern League Agrees To Move Team To Ottawa
Affiliated Baseball may be on its way back to Ottawa after all. Just four months after a plan to relocate an Eastern League team to Ottawa for the start of next season unraveled, the city announced...
View ArticleLet The Affiliation Shuffle Begin!
The countdown to the affiliation shuffle will never be mistaken for the rush of the draft signing deadline, but major and minor league teams will be making important decisions about their...
View ArticleState College Switches To Cardinals
The first change of the affiliation shuffle will reunite a pair of old friends. Short-season State College (New York-Penn League) announced it has signed a player-development contract with the...
View ArticleSwap complete: Mets to Vegas, Blue Jays to Buffalo
The only change coming to the Triple-A landscape is now official. The Mets and Las Vegas 51s (Pacific Coast) announced a two-year player-development contract last night, and the Blue Jays and Buffalo...
View ArticleCubs, Cards Highlight Midwest League Affiliation Changes
Change is coming to the Midwest League. Minor league and major league teams are going through their bi-annual renewal of affiliations this year, and stability has been the watchword at the higher...
View ArticleOne-Game Playoff Would Air On TBS
The chances of baseball needing an extra game to set its postseason field dwindled last night after the Nationals and Tigers each secured division titles and the Athletics locked up at least a...
View ArticleLegends Set To Unveil New Logo
The Lexington Legends will have a new affiliate for the first time in franchise history when the South Atlantic League franchise opens next season. And beginning tonight, the Legends will have a new...
View ArticleBakersfield Announces Plans For New Ballpark
Charlie Blaney has often said that Bakersfield could be the best market in the California League, if only it had a new ballpark. The former Dodgers farm director and third-year Cal League president...
View ArticleReading Messes With Success By Changing Name
The Reading Phillies have little reason to change. After all, this is the franchise that topped the Eastern League in average attendance last season for the sixth time in the past seven years. This is...
View ArticleBaseball Votes: Resounding No In Wilmington, Yes In El Paso
It may not have earned a projection on cable news or made a blip on John King’s interactive map, but ballpark ballot measures certainly got the vote out in Wilmington, N.C., and El Paso, Texas....
View ArticleScranton Changes Name From Yankees To RailRiders
Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre applied the first strokes of a franchise makeover last night by replacing its Yankees nickname of the past six seasons with a new moniker that, while short on the...
View ArticleWinter Meetings: MiLB Begins Search For Marketing Leader
NASHVILLE—Minor League Baseball president Pat O’Conner spent a good part of his stay in Nashville explaining the sport’s new marketing plan to his constituents during league meetings. Next up on his...
View ArticleUpper Deck Founder Dies
Upper Deck co-founder and CEO Richard P. McWilliam passed away suddenly on Saturday at his home in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. He was 59 years old. McWilliam co-founded Upper Deck in 1989 and oversaw its...
View ArticleMLBAM Buys Rockies Domain Name
Major League Baseball Advanced Media has purchased the domain name Rockies.com for an undisclosed sum from a Canadian organization that promoted tourism in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. MLB Advanced...
View ArticleDurham Bulls To Host 2014 Triple-A All-Star Game
Durham Bulls general manager Mike Birling feared that the team’s moment in the sun last September when they hosted the Triple-A National Championship would be spoiled by the one element he could not...
View ArticleWhat’s New At The Ballpark: Northwest Arkansas
Keep the product fresh. It’s a mantra recited by minor league operators in markets large and small, at ballparks new and old. For unlike their major league counterparts, the people who run minor league...
View ArticleWhat’s New At The Ballpark: Fort Wayne
Baseball America is counting down to Opening Day by looking at the many different ways minor league franchises are getting ready for the season. For some teams, getting ready means adding a new...
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