Minor League Realignment Scorecard

You can’t know the minor leagues teams  with out a scorecard. Consider this as your scorecard as to where all the teams in the minors have landed. There was a huge effort by the major leagues to shuffle things around (so they had more control) and here are the results of minor league realignment.

Minor Leagues Triple-A East = 14 pre-existing International League plus four that were previously in the PCL (Iowa, Omaha, Nashville, Memphis), one previously independent (St. Paul) and one previously Double-A (Jacksonville).

Minor Leagues Triple-A West = Nine from the Pacific Coast League and one formerly independent team (Sugar Land Skeeters)

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Minor Leagues Double -A

Double-A Central – All eight teams from the Texas League plus San Antonio and Wichita (formerly in the Pacific Coast League)

Double-A Northeast = 11 teams from the Eastern League, with Somerset (previously independent) in place of Trenton (now in the Draft League) as the Yankees’ Double-A affiliate.

Double-A South = Eight teams that were previously in the Southern League, which had 10 teams. Jacksonville is now Triple-A

High-A Central – All 12 teams were previously part of the 16-team Class A Midwest League

Bowling Green shifted to High-A East; Burlington and Clinton now in summer-collegiate Prospect League; Kane County now in the independent American Association

High A East =  Aberdeen, Brooklyn, Hudson Valley formerly New York-Penn League

Jersey Shore, Asheville, Greensboro, Hickory, Rome formerly South Atlantic League

Wilmington, Greenville, Winston-Salem formerly Carolina League   Bowling Green formerly in Midwest League

High-A West = Six teams that were all previously in the Class A Short-Season Northwest League.

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About the author– Tom Knuppel has been writing about baseball and sports for a few decades. As an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan he began with the blog CardinalsGM. Tom is a member of the United Cardinals Bloggers and the Baseball Bloggers Alliance. He also maintains the History of Cardinals website. More recently he has been busy at KnupSolutions and the primary writer of many sports at KnupSports and adds content at Sports 2.0. Tom is a retired High School English and Speech teacher and has completed over one hundred sportsbook reviews. He also can be followed on Twitter at tknup.

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