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2011 Minor League Affliate changes

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HedleyLamarr

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Yeah, it's Canada, but Vancouver is thousands of miles away. You don't want to have your callups thousands of miles away if you can help it.

Put the Blue Jays' affiliate in Hamilton. Come on, AAA Baseball, time to Make It One.

Didn't the Marlins once have their AAA affiliate based in Calgary?

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The_Admiral

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Yeah, apparently that's where the Albuquerque Isotopes moved from.

Bluefield is a Toronto affiliate now, BigMac. Evidently, that was a Baltimore farm club for 52 years! Wow.

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BaltimoreFan

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Apparently, the Orioles are pulling out of Bluefield. I hope somebody else goes there, or there will be an odd-number team league.

The Blue Jays are taking over in Bluefield.

It's a shame the Orioles had to end their 53 year relationship with the city/team. But unfortunately there was no need for 3 rookie league teams, the talent was too spread out. Bluefield wasn't going to beat out Cal's team (Ironbirds) or the team's new spring training site (Sarasota). Bluefield was just the odd man out.

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1. I don't think anyone's mentioned yet that with the Jays moving into Vancouver, the mandate is to find, draft and groom Canadian talent. So there's that.

2. The Marlins first affiliation was in Edmonton, with the Trappers, which resulted in them having a teal/black/silver color scheme for a while, which just didn't look right.

3. The more I think about this, the more I think the Jays should buy the Beavers outright with the intention of moving them into Winnipeg. As weird as it sounds, Winnipeg is a baseball town. The more Canadian affiliations the Jays can muster, the better off they'd be overall, at least in a national sense.

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3. The more I think about this, the more I think the Jays should buy the Beavers outright with the intention of moving them into Winnipeg. As weird as it sounds, Winnipeg is a baseball town. The more Canadian affiliations the Jays can muster, the better off they'd be overall, at least in a national sense.

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3. The more I think about this, the more I think the Jays should buy the Beavers outright with the intention of moving them into Winnipeg. As weird as it sounds, Winnipeg is a baseball town. The more Canadian affiliations the Jays can muster, the better off they'd be overall, at least in a national sense.

The Goldeyes still drawing well? Agreeing with Lee, Jays gotta spread the love across Canada again

If the Goldeyes can draw 6000+ a night in that abortion that was the formerly great Northern League, they can do well in the PCL. Hell, given that the highest attendance in AAA is only around 8800 (Lehigh Valley and Sacramento), if they maintain that 6000 per night, they stay firmly in the middle of the pack. Portland, by way of comparison, is dead last in the PCL with 2600 per night.

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NJTank

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I think the only American affilate the Jays should keep is Dunedin.

The rest should be spread through Canada

AAA. Vancouver

AA. Montreal

A. Winnipeg

A. Calgary

A. Dunedin

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I think the only American affilate the Jays should keep is Dunedin.

The rest should be spread through Canada

AAA. Vancouver

AA. Montreal

A. Winnipeg

A. Calgary

A. Dunedin

Rookie Medicine Hat

Ummmm....Tanklin? Once you get past AAA, the minors tend to operate as regional bus leagues. Travel is just going to be a teensy bit of a problem at those levels. (Especially at A)

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I think the only American affilate the Jays should keep is Dunedin.

The rest should be spread through Canada

AAA. Vancouver

AA. Montreal

A. Winnipeg

A. Calgary

A. Dunedin

Rookie Medicine Hat

Ummmm....Tanklin? Once you get past AAA, the minors tend to operate as regional bus leagues. Travel is just going to be a teensy bit of a problem at those levels. (Especially at A)

Putting Calgary in the Northwest League wouldn't be that much of a problem but, yes, Winnipeg in the Midwest League would make for some arduous trips in the iron lung.

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And Medicine Hat can play in the Pioneer League.

Montreal can play in the Eastern League.

Yes, yes, we figured that out on our own. It's just that the closest teams to Winnipeg are in Eastern :censored: ing Iowa. That's a 729 mile road trip for the closest team. By comparison, the longest road trip in the current league is around 600 miles.

Montreal is kind of out of the way for most of the Eastern League too.

Calgary strikes me as being just a bit out of the way for a league that is concentrated in Oregon and Washington

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And Medicine Hat can play in the Pioneer League.

Montreal can play in the Eastern League.

Yes, yes, we figured that out on our own. It's just that the closest teams to Winnipeg are in Eastern :censored: ing Iowa. That's a 729 mile road trip for the closest team. By comparison, the longest road trip in the current league is around 600 miles.

Montreal is kind of out of the way for most of the Eastern League too.

Calgary strikes me as being just a bit out of the way for a league that is concentrated in Oregon and Washington

Portland, Maine (the furthest north team in the EL) to Richmond (southernmost EL team) is 664 miles driving distance. (At least that's what Google Earth says.) Correct me if i'm wrong, but I think the EL balances the schedule more toward divisional games in an effort to reduce travel expenses.

The bigger question for any Montreal minor-league team would be that of venue. You can't tell me they'd use the Big O, which means they'd need to build a new park. And we all remember how the last effort to do that in Montreal went.

 

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I'm really glad Major League Baseball systematically destroyed their own sport in Montreal and the rest of Quebec so they could finally put a team in Washington. That's worked out well.

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First off, no way in hell the A's don't re-up their affiliation with the Rivercats. Sacramento has had the highest attendance in the PCL, and just about all of minor league ball for that matter, for about all of the last decade. They would have to be fatally stupid to let that affiliation slip through their fingers. The only way I could possibly see the Rivercats not as an A's affiliate is if another team was to make the club a ridiculously sweet offer. Considering the distance, that club would most likely be the Giants. But at the moment, they're anchored into their contract with the Fresno Grizzlies. Once that contract is up though, I really wouldn't be surprised to see the Giants ditch the San Joaquin Valley in favor of a market such as Reno. The Giants have a HUGE following in Northern Nevada, and the Aces are putting up some really strong attendance numbers. Actually, I think the only thing that is hurting the Aces is their affiliation with the Diamondbacks. They're just barely on the outskirts of A's/Giants territory as it is, and for some inexplicable reason, there is even some competition from the Rockies over that market :wacko:

And finally, it would be a downright shame to see the Portland Beavers move. If that happens, there won't be an original PCL team left :(

(Sacramento and Portland were the only two Charter cities to still have teams, but the original Sacramento franchise was called the Solons)

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I'm pretty sure, and that no one has mentioned it, but just to be sure, the Angels are sticking with Salt Lake, right? It seems that those two teams have a good farm-feeder system going, from what I've seen.

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I'm pretty sure, and that no one has mentioned it, but just to be sure, the Angels are sticking with Salt Lake, right? It seems that those two teams have a good farm-feeder system going, from what I've seen.

So far, as the Angels and Bees have a deal thru the end of 2014.

More to update:

- Kansas City leaves Burlington (Midwest League) and goes to Kane County (Midwest), essentially leaving Oakland with Burlington.

- Washington leaves Vermont (NY Penn League) and goes to Auburn (NY Penn), leaving Florida and Oakland to fight over Jamestown and Vermont (both NY Penn)

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I'm pretty sure, and that no one has mentioned it, but just to be sure, the Angels are sticking with Salt Lake, right? It seems that those two teams have a good farm-feeder system going, from what I've seen.

So far, as the Angels and Bees have a deal thru the end of 2014.

More to update:

- Kansas City leaves Burlington (Midwest League) and goes to Kane County (Midwest), essentially leaving Oakland with Burlington.

- Washington leaves Vermont (NY Penn League) and goes to Auburn (NY Penn), leaving Florida and Oakland to fight over Jamestown and Vermont (both NY Penn)

Vermont is now affiliated with Oakland.

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