As baseball moves into the offseason, the focus will be on the free agent class as teams prepare for the 2025 season.
While MLB receives most, if not all, of the attention involved in professional baseball, there are also many levels of minor league baseball that could face some changes.
An MLB insider recently revealed some possible cuts that could be coming to the minor leagues.
“I keep hearing that they want to cut down one and maybe two more levels in the minors,” Lowe said, via Foul Territory . “That’s Rob Manfred saying we can just leave the development to college baseball.”
Could Major League Baseball get rid of multiple minor league levels?@keithlaw: breaks down some potential pending changes to MLB’s development system
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Unlike most professional sports, baseball has its top to bottom levels, including Triple-A, Double-A, High-A, Single-A, and Rookie leagues.
The various levels of minor league baseball allow players to develop and progress through the farm until reaching the MLB level.
The law was also debated by Commissioner Manfred, who viewed the minor league level as an expense rather than an investment in MLB’s future product.
However, players who work their way through the minors can develop and reach their full potential before playing for the big league club.
It will be interesting to see if MLB reduces the number of minor league levels and what it does with the game going forward.
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