ValleyCats Join Frontier League
The Tri-City ValleyCats have found their new home in the Frontier Professional Baseball League. Just months after finding out the ValleyCats would not be part of the MLB s new minor league plan they ve become the 16th member of the Independent Frontier League.
The Frontier League now consists of 16 teams and plays a 96 game regular season that starts in May and ends in September with playoffs to follow. The now defunct New York Penn League where the Cats formerly played had 14 teams and a 76 game regular season. The Frontier League website describes the league as:
Founded for the 1993 season, the Frontier League is the largest and longest-running independent professional baseball league. An official Partner League of Major League Baseball, the Frontier League features 16 clubs stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River and from the Ohio River to the St. Lawrence Seaway. The Frontier League annually moves the most players into Maj
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Tri-City ValleyCats manager Ozney Guillen interacts with fans at Bruno Stadium during a game on June 23, 2019.
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TROY There will be pro baseball at Joe Bruno Stadium this summer, after all.
The Tri-City ValleyCats were left adrift when Major League Baseball took over the minors and declined to offer a Player Development License to the ValleyCats and many other teams, but the independent Frontier League has pulled the ValleyCats aboard, making Tri-City its 16th member.
The Frontier League regular season is 96 games, so there will be 48 home games at The Joe starting sometime in mid-May.
The old grandstands at Highland Park, which were destroyed by fire in 1975. (Museum of Idaho photo)
You can call it wishful thinking, but it is good news that Pioneer League baseball will continue in Idaho Falls.
Major League Baseball and the Pioneer League jointly announced this week that the Pioneer League has been designated a “Partner League” of MLB. Starting in 2021, the Pioneer League will transition from affiliated status to an independent professional MLB Partner League that continues to provide high-quality baseball to the states of Idaho, Montana, Utah and Colorado. All eight members of the Pioneer League – the Billings Mustangs, the Grand Junction Rockies, the Great Falls Voyagers, the Idaho Falls Chukars, the Missoula PaddleHeads, the Ogden Raptors, the Northern Colorado Owlz and the Rocky Mountain Vibes – will continue participating in the league and will maintain their existing team names and brands.
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