California’s reputation for being a minor league baseball hot spot is threatened by a number of factors. There is growing pressure on minor league teams to have state-of-the-art facilities, and ...

Major League Baseball has agreed ... of becoming a major league city). The only two left from those 12 franchises are Albuquerque and Visalia, Calif. There were 206 minor league teams then.

which is to be done in a player’s home city if possible.) Report date: The mandatory minor league report date can be set to any time after major league pitchers and catchers report. MLB agreed ...

“There’s a path that many minor league baseball teams take,” Byrnes said. “We were hearing maybe not that far out there. Also, the Thunder’s presence made us a big league city ...

They’ll play in two cities that they’re not accustomed to — Tampa rather than St. Petersburg, and Sacramento as opposed to Oakland — and at two ballparks that typically host minor league ...