I’m from the UK and I’m visiting Scottsdale in July. I’m interested in going to the Arizona complex league diamondbacks but I’m unable to find a website or anything ticket sales etc.

Is it possible to watch them play or is it not open to the public. Can’t find anything online so any help is appreciated

https://www.milb.com/tacoma/news/adding-home-games

MLB blinked. They realized that playing every single day from March to October might not be good for Sutter Health Park, and have sent the Tacoma-Sacramento series on June 10-15 to Cheney Stadium in Tacoma. This will give MLB a chance to check the status of the field at Sutter Health Park (and give it a week off, even if it's in great shape).

From /u/abc123therobot in a comment on the Aberdeen thread:

I guess it’s time to update the list of endangered teams. 

Confirmed to be moving/losing PDL: Modesto

In public danger of losing it: Eugene, Aberdeen, Myrtle Beach

In speculative danger: Salem (VA), San Jose

The Giants organization seems to be in the middle of a lot of this mid-decade transition...

AAA: Sacramento is a tenant in their own ballpark for at least three (probably more) years.

AA: Good news! Richmond got CarMax Park! Bad news! Everybody with an opinion thinks Washington wants to move their AAA operation here once the new ballpark opens!

A: The Ems cannot co-exist with the University forever. They will move. It's only a matter of where.

Low A: I've seen San Jose in this list before... is the cost of fixing Excite more than they can comfortably handle? A land-value problem?

Anyway, none of this can be seen as really good for the Giants' player-development department... can it?

Who would you say are the best relievers in the minors?

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1Tl1N1MzFGHtWp2N6OqUsR4ytePvsmFw&usp=sharing

Made this map I figured I'd share, added some other draft and pro leagues too

wish i had a way to print it out and put pins in where I've been so far

Devastated😓😅

I know, this news is over a month old, but I've been busy and out of the loop.

I'm honestly kinda sad about the name change. Don't get me wrong, the new crab logo is kinda sick, but I liked the flow of "Bowie" Baysox so much better🥲 I get where they were going with the whole Chesapeake thing, but idk.

I'm also not a huge fan of the new "B" insignia. It seems kind of boring and plain, and almost like they just threw something together in two seconds, especially when viewed right alongside the new logo. I feel like they could've done some alterations as simple as even just taking the "B" from the "Baysox" in the new logo and using that instead of the collegiate-esque font.

Anywayyy, just a vent cause I don't have any irl friends who care much about MiLB, haha

Hi all, New Hampshire Fisher Cat fan here (AA for Toronto Blue Jays). My wife isn't into baseball and most of my friends are Boston Red Sox fans, so it leaves me going to games alone! Without any fan groups or social clubs around the NH Fisher Cats, I wanted to ask other minor league fans....

Is it easy to meet fellow supporters in your city? Are there groups or opportunities to meet up and cheer for your team? Any local bars and pubs?

I find it strange that New Hampshire doesn't really have much of a fanbase. I can only compare to the Dayton Dragons and Worcester Sox, where both stadiums and the general area of each city had supporter swag around (both fans and flags/merchandise in shops and at restaurants.

I would love more information.... maybe some ideas for how to create something grass roots in New Hampshire!

Thank you in advance!

MiLB released the revised 2025 schedule for the Florida State League yesterday. Game dates are available, but game times are pending.

All Tampa Tarpons home games are listed as being at "Yankee Complex", so it doesn't appear they'll get to use Steinbrenner Stadium at all.

The entire previous schedule was tossed out. To accommodate Tampa's needs, there are four weeks where the 6-game block schedule won't be used -- in those weeks, each team plays two three-game series (Tuesday-Thursday/Friday-Sunday). The weeks of April 29, May 27, July 22, and July 29 are the split weeks. This means that after the All-Star Break, FSL teams will play five consecutive 3-game series (as July 18-20 is the short week after the break).

There will be a few wraparound (Friday-Thursday, off Monday) series. And the St. Lucie Mets will play the rare Roger Dean Double (at Palm Beach April 29-May 1 and at Jupiter May 2-4).

TL;DR - FSL fans, it's time to rearrange your calendars...

Hi. I want to visit a Minor League stadium next summer. I'm Travelling to New England and Pennsylvania. Which is the best MiLB stadium experience there for you? i read something about Portland, Hartford and Reading. Some AAA atmospheres seems to be good too (Worcester, Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs). Which stadium/city would you choose?

(thanks in advance)

It’s a MiLB team just don’t know which. Anyone have a clue ?

Links:

Rancho: https://www.milb.com/news/rancho-cucamonga-quakes-welcome-new-owner-diamond-baseball-holdings

Modesto: https://marinersblog.mlblogs.com/diamond-baseball-holdings-purchasing-modesto-nuts-8a2fe8a24197

Tri-City: https://www.milb.com/news/tri-city-dust-devils-welcome-diamond-baseball-holdings-as-new-owner

Inland Empire also announced they will affiliate with Seattle for 2026

https://www.milb.com/press-release/66ers-24-mariners-pr

I haven’t heard any players on my team get traded as far as I know but i would love to know if any of yours did.

Monday will mark the four-year anniversary of what was jokingly called Invitation Day, when each MLB team extended invitations to four minor league teams, inviting them each to sign a Player Development License (PDL) and be their affiliate. While the general public still isn’t privy to the specifics of the PDL, well-connected reporters like JJ Cooper (Baseball America) and Kevin Reichard (Ballpark Digest) let us know that the PDLs were generally good for 10 years, with some being 5-year provisional licenses.

It was far from a guarantee that all 120 of 120 invitees would accept. There were rumors that some of the 120 were enviously eyeing the newly-independent Pioneer League, considering if the cost of having to pay the players was outweighed by stringent facility requirements and significant meddling by MLB suits. In one article, Cooper said “more than one minor league owner wondered if it would be possible that a team could decline a spot among the 120 remaining affiliated teams because they could see the new facility standards as simply too costly to meet.” I remember thinking about the sheer number of teams and how unrealistic it is to get 100+ separate organizations to unanimously agree about anything. But they did, with all 120 teams accepting the invitation and allowing MLB to reconfigure the whole minor league ecosystem. 

While we never got a list of teams that were invited on a provisional basis, we’ve seen a few cities get edged out already. Many MiLB team owners (both independent folks and MLB teams) sold their teams to Diamond Baseball Holdings, and two of them were relocated, leaving behind ballparks in Pearl, MS and Kinston, NC. The Brewers moved their Carolina Mudcats to a new park down the road. Beyond that, we’ve learned about shaky situations in Eugene, Modesto, and possibly Myrtle Beach. In the rumor/speculation mill, there seems to be some uncertainty in places like Salem (VA) and San Jose.

This is a very small number of teams that look to be in trouble. Heck, in the decade before all this drama, we lost affiliated ball in cities like Oneonta, Sarasota, Casper, Yakima, Tucson, Jamestown, Savannah, New Britain, Bakersfield, Adelanto, Melbourne, Helena, Mobile, and New Orleans. Not to mention losses in cities like Woodbridge, Portland, Kinston, and Huntsville—all of whom had new affiliated teams fill the regional void—or placeholder teams like the Buies Creek Astros. Suffice it to say that having only three teams (including one within region) relocate since 2021 is a small number by even the most Pollyanna expectations, and there doesn’t seem to be a long list of additional endangered teams. 

On the flip side, we’ve got a new ballpark going up in Ontario, CA, new ballpark funds in two Maryland cities, and the Trenton Thunder upgrading their park “not only meeting PDL standards, but above.” Rumors percolate in places like the Pacific Northwest, where the Emeralds owner said that several cities have reached out about relocation.

This is a long-winded way of saying that there seem to be at least 110 current MiLB teams that are going to meet PDL standards beyond the provisional years and a good handful of interested cities waiting in the wings. I don’t think anyone saw this coming.

Four years ago, there was plenty of speculation that several of the invitees would never meet MLB standards, and how this could be a prelude to MLB reducing the total number of PDLs to 90. By setting tough standards, this reduction could happen through simple attrition rather than painful termination. Rumors, including recent ones, persist about MLB’s wish to reduce the number of total rostered MiLB players and have only one Single-A level.

When MLB let the Professional Baseball Agreement expire in 2020, they made a gamble that there would be a sufficient amount of minor league teams and cities that wanted affiliation enough to make significant facility upgrades. If anything, it seems that they underplayed their hand. Just about every team wants MLB affiliation and just about every team is in compliance. Unless MLB gets creative—and there are ways that they can—an amputation to 90 teams at the end of this decade will make 2020 seem like a wart removal.

I grew up in Visalia when i was younger, and when the Rockies joined MLB , the (Then) Visalia Oaks were turned into the Central Valley Rockies. I believe it only lasted for 2 seasons before returning to the Oaks. But I am trying to find the schedule for the team in 1994. All I've been able to find is stats and player info. Any help would be awesome! Thanks