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MLB 2020: We'll Play Ball, I Guess.

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unofan said:
They murdered about 20%, and realigned another 20%.

AAA and AA are relatively untouched. Single A and rookie ball got hammered.
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Well, it's been an inexorable process that began in the 1950s. Never forget there were once B, C, and even D leagues, and hundreds of minor league teams. We once had the equivalent of British soccer before the majors got their snouts in and destroyed.
 
Kepler said:
Didn't they murder 70% of the minors already? What's left?
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I think this was the day all the new affiliation contracts officially began. The electoral college vote of sorts, without the rioting.

Interesting how many states are now without teams within the MLB/MiLB umbrella. Idaho, Montana, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming all lost teams. Not big, not populous, certainly no major media markets (though RI may get lumped in with bigger ones). Independent or summer-league wood bat teams will likely pop up in their place, but crazy that a league struggling with a younger audience would contract its footprint at all.
 
The Pawsox died?

I hate RI* as much as anybody, but that aint right.

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Fig. 1 Pauly D is 40 and I don't feel so well myself
 
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Spartanforlife4 said:
I think this was the day all the new affiliation contracts officially began. The electoral college vote of sorts, without the rioting.

Interesting how many states are now without teams within the MLB/MiLB umbrella. Idaho, Montana, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wyoming all lost teams.
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Oregon may not have a team anymore.
 
Kinda surprised to see the St. Paul Saints affiliated now. They seemed to be doing just fine being independent.

But then again, AAA is a big step forward in terms of level of play...
 
Drew S. said:
The Red Sox/paw Sox held RI hostage and RI eventually told them to **** off. It’s disgraceful.
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Was RI getting anything of value from having the Pawsox? Were the Red Sox threatening the local government to turn fan argle bargle against them (i.e. how Brooklyn lost the Dodgers)?
 
Jimjamesak said:
No, Hillsboro and Eugene are still there. Salem lost theirs though.
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And Portland lost theirs, incredibly. There had been baseball in Portland since the 1860s, which is essentially how long there has been a Portland.

I see the Hillsboro stadium (which did not exist when I lived there) is a 5 minute walk from where I lived 20 years ago. And the Eugene team played a 5 minute walk from where Dr. Mrs. lived when I met her. In fact our first date was a baseball game in Portland at that old eyesore itself, Multnomah Stadium (a.k.a. about fifty other names, now Providence Park), the most unattractive place I have ever watched baseball including some high school fields, although the fact that it once hosted an Olympic trial ski jumping competition is pretty cool.

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Fig. 1 This was before insurance
 
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