Like Apprenticeship Programs or Artistic Pursuits: Minor League Baseball reporting 2017

https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/09/minor-league-baseball-head-sees-high-threat-of-scandal-due-to-paltry-pay-and-weak-safeguards

tbf, anyone dumb enough to bet on minor league baseball deserves what they get

https://theathletic.com/830452/2019/03/15/i-cant-afford-to-play-this-game-minor-leaguers-open-up-about-the-realities-of-their-pay-and-its-impact-on-their-lives

PawSox to host @RedSox-themed Engagement Party for @AROD & @JLo on April 12 https://t.co/ZPh7XTggT7

*Fans in Varitek or Bronson Arroyo jerseys get in free
* @BenAffleck has been invited to throw Ceremonial First Pitch
*Jennifers get in free (Yes... All "Jenny's from the block") pic.twitter.com/nR1tPJxIFY

— PawSox (@PawSox) March 20, 2019

I guess it will take more than 4 titles in 15 yrs to kill of this inferiority complex

https://portside.org/2019-04-04/opening-week-labor-solidarity-and-plight-minor-league-baseball-players

fucked up

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D56LpzHXsAEVOBO.jpg

wow that's good drainage. ground crew take a bow!

I been dere! when it was drier.

this is quite a box score

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?sid=milb&t=g_box&gid=2019_05_20_tacaaa_renaaa_1

Fresno's Memorial Day "tribute video" showed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez between images of Kim Jong-un and Fidel Castro while the voice of late former president Ronald Regan mentioned "enemies of freedom." https://t.co/ATXHDdGt4W

— USA TODAY Sports (@usatodaysports) May 28, 2019

https://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article230893789.html

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D8JbA6BWsAIwKxN.jpg:small

that's a little too graphic for me, but they should make their gloves from udders

They should put little gloves on the udders

Tracked down my former student Darren Shred; he's playing for the Barrie Baycats of the International League right now (and listed as an infielder, not a pitcher).

http://pointstreak.com/baseball/player.html?playerid=1369992&seasonid=32194

Not good, I don't think--guessing he was released by the Reds' organization?

yeah, he was released back in october. i wonder if he had an injury that made pitching no longer a possibility?

Probably. He's run the gamut by now: third base when he with us, then a catcher, then a pitcher, back in the infield now.

I said International League--what I meant was Intercounty League. Fergie Jenkins played in it a couple of seasons after he retired, Rob Ducey too. I feel bad for him, but a stepping-stone to the majors it isn't.

http://s.nj.com/4ihsCqB

oof

red-ass nation

man i get that no hitters are cool and all but like the unwritten rule that you can't try to win a game where you're down 3-0 has to be in the top 5 stupidest unwritten rules. "these guys are doing really well, so you should stop trying to win the strategic way and just try to win the way that hasn't been working all day out of RESPECT"

people are still talking about this and apparently the hitter has gotten death threats

ain't that america

IT'S OUTTA HERE!!! Matt Davidson launches his 200th career professional home run to score 2 runs for Nashville. It's now 4-1 Nashville in the 5th. pic.twitter.com/DiKRPxhJri

— Nashville Sounds (@nashvillesounds) June 16, 2019

The GJ Rockies are not considering changing their name and never have. We are owned by a group led by the Colorado Rockies and having a team on the west slope helps build their brand. Suggesting we would be called the GJ "Chubs" is offensive and a slang sexual term for erection.

— GrandJunctionRockies (@GJRockies) June 27, 2019

someone got rubbed the rong way

lol

wait that has got to be some kind of street team psy-ops, right?

why...would someone write that?

i wouldn't put it past some teams, but this one seems to legitimately have no sense of humor (or understanding of twitter)

https://deadspin.com/an-interview-with-the-man-who-enraged-a-minor-league-ba-1835915356

the real question is when will some other team take advantage by doing a chubs night

does Bald Knob, AR have an mlb affiliate?

no, but

http://www.khop.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/1137/2016/04/Modesto-Nuts-300.jpg

attended my first Vancouver Canadians (short season A affiliate of the Toronto Blue Jays playing in the Northwest League) game of the season last night and left at the 7th inning stretch, missing all 5 of the Canadians runs - I had seen all 6 of the Hillsboro Hops' runs at least.

the dodgers have two teams in the arizona rookie league this summer: Team Mota and Team Lasorda

it’s a metsaphor

The fireworks for the St. Lucie Mets did not go well tonight at First Data Field. They set a fire outside the stadium.

Photos from Shannon Cullen pic.twitter.com/KaALifPeki

— Michael Mayer (@mikemayerMMO) July 5, 2019

ablazin'

gavin lux is a 21yo shortstop in the dodgers system; he was promoted to triple-a oklahoma city three weeks ago. these are the results of his first 15 games:

3-for-4, 2B
1-for-2, 2B
4-for-6, HR, 2 2B, 2 RBI
1-for-5, 2B, RBI
1-for-3
4-for-6, RBI
1-for-3, 3B
2-for-4, 2B, 4 RBI
2-for-5, 2B, 2 RBI
1-for-3, 3B
2-for-4, HR, RBI
1-for-3, HR, RBI
4-for-5, HR, 2 RBI
2-for-4, 2 HR, 5 RBI
4-for-5, HR, 2 2B, 2 RBI

33-for-62 (.524), 7 HR, 2 3B, 9 2B, 21 RBI, 24 R, 12 K, 7 BB

i mean yes the ball is juiced and the PCL is a hitters league, but jfc

sweet name, too

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D_2l7zjWsAACL7M.jpg

i, i...

ayiyi

Because of travel difficulties, the Nats have all but abandoned Fresno as a legitimate place to keep fringe major league players whom they could need on short notice https://t.co/smoGYO8Z3B

— Dan Steinberg (@dcsportsbog) August 6, 2019

lol, no shit...?

sadly, these guys aren't available either:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Islanders

!!!

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i don't know if being in double-a when they should otherwise be in triple-a affects players' salaries. maybe if they're on the 40-man it doesn't matter?

https://i.imgur.com/WOANMjF.jpg

what is even the point

Fan dies during taco-eating contest at Fresno Grizzlies baseball game https://t.co/7G1GqkkYfN

— L.A. Times Sports (@latimessports) August 14, 2019

i guess he died doing what he loved

still a grisly end

if you're going to die in a taco-eating contest, it would be nice to at least do it in the privacy of one's own bathtub

Harvey in Vegas

https://nypost.com/2019/08/18/matt-harvey-was-really-nervous-for-his-minor-league-start/

https://i.imgur.com/MgdHshb.jpg

morbs might need one of these jerseys

we have a Game 141 today: scranton/wilkes-barre (NYY) and syracuse (NYM) are playing a one-game tiebreaker for the international league north title

mets are up 6-0 in the third with ervin santana on the mound