SPR s Doug Nadvornick reports.
Tuesday was Opening Day for the Spokane Indians baseball club. That’s a big day in any year, but especially this year because the 2020 minor league season was cancelled.
The Indians are not only adjusting to pandemic-related changes, but also to a radical restructuring of the minor league baseball system.
Major League Baseball reduced the minor league system from 160 teams to 120 during the offseason. Some long-time franchises lost their affiliations with major league teams. Spokane wasn’t among the 40 teams axed, but its situation was not clear until only recently.
“We are now two levels higher than we’ve been for the last 40 years in the baseball world. We’re two levels up, which means we’re High-A as our classification. All of our players are going to be bigger, better, faster, stronger. They’re older than they’ve been. We’re going to have better baseball here than we’ve seen in a long time, said Spokane Indians senior vice p
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Minor League Baseball is going to look much different in 2021 than it did in 2019 (the last time we
had Minor League Baseball). We tracked some of those reported changes in December but now that the league affiliations and schedules have been made official, we can take a look at what these changes will mean for the Rockies.
Minor Leagues, Major Changes
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