Jays lose affiliation with Vancouver

[King]

 

Sad day

[Carlos Danger]

That stadium is probably better than the Coliseum.

[Pendleton]

Hope this means Ottawa is getting affiliated ball back

[Virgil_Hiltz]

What other cities in Ontario?...I know St Kitts and London had MiLB teams in the past. But wouldn't any team in Ontario would need to play in an appropriote league

and is there one close by? (I dont think so unless I had a brain cramp)

[43211234]

Well at least Vancouver will have a full season team. They very well might have been stuck without a team at all.

 

The Blue Jays would want their AA and AAA sites much closer than Vancouver. And of course Dunedin takes another full season spot.

 

I'm not sure how many full-season teams will be left after the shakeup but this seemed destined to happen.

[Spanky99]

Well at least Vancouver will have a full season team. They very well might have been stuck without a team at all.

 

The Blue Jays would want their AA and AAA sites much closer than Vancouver. And of course Dunedin takes another full season spot.

 

I'm not sure how many full-season teams will be left after the shakeup but this seemed destined to happen.

 

Wow... and welp.

[TheHurl]

Hope this means Ottawa is getting affiliated ball back

 

It's not they signed a deal with the Frontier. They signed Mincey and Gaedale this week

[TheHurl]

What other cities in Ontario?...I know St Kitts and London had MiLB teams in the past. But wouldn't any team in Ontario would need to play in an appropriote league

and is there one close by? (I dont think so unless I had a brain cramp)

 

MiLB is falling apart They are not going to new cities.

[Laika]

Sucks for Toronto but it seemed very likely once it became apparent that MiLB was shrinking.

 

I'm just happy than Vancouver will still be an MLB affiliate.

[Carlos Danger]

You would think Seattle vice Oakland, would be a logical choice and have synergy. I guess they must already have an affiliate they like?

[Olerud363]

MiLB is falling apart They are not going to new cities.

 

This is insane. Complete idiocy. Wrong move at the wrong time.

 

I wonder if independent ball will thrive?? People are moving away from cities. Will not be travelling into big cities for games.

 

Yankee Stadium will no longer have 50,000 a day, 1/2 of those from suburbs and day trip towns.

 

It will have 25,000 a day from closer in. The people will be travelling 20 minutes to go to a local game only to find MLB shut down their local game with a laugh and insane disrespect to the common man.

 

And the 41st round draft pick (think Mike Piazza, Kevin Pillar). Done.

 

Hopefully the people and the system naturally organize an independent league, where the Piazzas and Pillars play their early seasons before signing with MLB. That's the answer, hopefully it happens and the Oligarchs, Central Planners, socialists and other undesirables don't try to fight the people on this.

[Laika]

This is insane. Complete idiocy. Wrong move at the wrong time.

 

I wonder if independent ball will thrive?? People are moving away from cities. Will not be travelling into big cities for games.

 

Yankee Stadium will no longer have 50,000 a day, 1/2 of those from suburbs and day trip towns.

 

It will have 25,000 a day from closer in. The people will be travelling 20 minutes to go to a local game only to find MLB shut down their local game with a laugh and insane disrespect to the common man.

 

And the 41st round draft pick (think Mike Piazza, Kevin Pillar). Done.

 

Hopefully the people and the system naturally organize an independent league, where the Piazzas and Pillars play their early seasons before signing with MLB. That's the answer, hopefully it happens and the Oligarchs, Central Planners, socialists and other undesirables don't try to fight the people on this.

 

I don't think it's THAT doom and gloom.

 

MiLB is shrinking but only by something like one affiliate per organization, at this point. Baseball is the type of sport that takes years to develop in. There isn't a chance the general structure of MiLB will change in any drastic way; there should at least be AAA/AA, A ball, short season, and rookie ball. Organizations need different levels and multiple affiliates for various systemic reasons.

 

What has become obvious over the last few years is that MLB organizations and MLB generally are not capable or willing to provide adequate resources and compensation to all participants in their MiLB system. You can argue that it's actually ETHICAL to employ less MiLB players.

 

If long-shot prospects want to pursue their MLB dreams, there has never been a better time to do that through Independent baseball leagues. This was true before the contraction of MiLB and it was based on technological advancements. Team can "scout" data-based factors like exit velocity, spin rate, pitch velocity no matter where a player is playing. We have seen players get signed from viral tweets of their bullpen sessions.

[Grant77]

This is probably good for Vancouver. MiLB cities are fighting to have any team period right now, especially short season clubs.

[Olerud363]

I don't think it's THAT doom and gloom.

 

MiLB is shrinking but only by something like one affiliate per organization, at this point. Baseball is the type of sport that takes years to develop in. There isn't a chance the general structure of MiLB will change in any drastic way; there should at least be AAA/AA, A ball, short season, and rookie ball. Organizations need different levels and multiple affiliates for various systemic reasons.

 

What has become obvious over the last few years is that MLB organizations and MLB generally are not capable or willing to provide adequate resources and compensation to all participants in their MiLB system. You can argue that it's actually ETHICAL to employ less MiLB players.

 

If long-shot prospects want to pursue their MLB dreams, there has never been a better time to do that through Independent baseball leagues. This was true before the contraction of MiLB and it was based on technological advancements. Team can "scout" data-based factors like exit velocity, spin rate, pitch velocity no matter where a player is playing. We have seen players get signed from viral tweets of their bullpen sessions.

 

Well my post was probably over the top. I haven't really heard what exactly is going to happen to all the teams. For example where I live the NY-Penn league is really important. It was really missed this summer. What is happening with that?? My understanding is that it is disbanded with some cities getting full season leagues... but still not good.

 

The Cities in the NY Penn league are mostly within day trip to a game distance of Yankees/Mets/Red Sox/Phillies. Will people still be making those day trips ?? Probably, but not as much. Would they instead support the NY Penn league even more?? Probably, but again we don't know how much.

 

Replacing the NY Penn league with a full season high quality independent league would be interesting.

[FrozenRopes]

Good for Oakland. I've played in Nat Bailey, it's a beautiful ballpark. Hard to hit it out of there though. Good local support as well.

[Brownie19]

Good for Oakland. I've played in Nat Bailey, it's a beautiful ballpark. Hard to hit it out of there though. Good local support as well.

 

Man - how amazing would it be to have a gorgeous ball park and a AA affiliate in your home town? That would be the tits.