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Singer-songwriter Jann Klose will perform at JR’z Pub in Austintown on Saturday. (Contributed photo) Here are some of the events happening around the Mahoning Valley this weekend. For more events, check out our events calendar. AUSTINTOWN — Singer-songwriter Jann Klose will perform at JR’z Pub, 1722 South Raccoon Road, at 8 p.m. Saturday. Admission is free.   Klose has released six albums and two EPs. He was raised in Kenya, South Africa, Germany and the United States. His latest sin...

Even though the Baltimore Orioles ended its affiliation with the team, the Keys are swinging this summer as part of the new MLB Draft League.

Trenton Thunder Release Their 2021 Schedule

The team opens the season May 24 at West Virginia.

First the good news: The Frederick Keys will continue to play ball during the summer at Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium. Now the less good news, the team will no longer be affiliated with the Baltimore Orioles organization, and the quality of play will probably be a bit lower. The very existence of the team has been in doubt since it was revealed in 2019 that Major League Baseball wanted to eliminate 42 minor league teams in a major restructuring of the sport. The Keys were one of the teams ...

Communities lose teams as affiliated minors shrink to 120 FILE - In this May 21, 2015, file photo, the St. Paul, Minn., skyline is visible beyond CHS Field as the St. Paul Saints hold their baseball season opener against the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks at the new stadium. Major League Baseball went through with its plan to cut to 120 farm teams. As part of the reorganization, the Saints, which had been an independent team, will become the Triple-A team of the Minnesota Twins. (Aaron Lavinsky/Star T...

Major League Baseball went through with its plan to cut to 120 farm teams Wednesday, when 40 cities were dropped as professional affiliates.

Jackson loses team as affiliated minors shrink to 120 By RONALD BLUMDecember 10, 2020 GMT NEW YORK (AP) — Jackson, Tennessee, lost its Double-A baseball team for next season, one of 40 cities dropped as professional affiliates as Major League Baseball went through with its plan to cut to 120 farm teams. The New York-Penn League, which started in 1939, was eliminated and the Pioneer League, founded the same year, lost its affiliated status and became an independent partner league. The Appalach...

MLB issued its final list yesterday of which 120 minor-league teams will get to continue as farm teams for big-league clubs, and which will be left to join a series of independent or amateur leagues or disappear altogether. While a few teams got official notice that they’d be switching levels — the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp jump from Double-A to Triple-A, the San Antonio Missions drop from Triple-A to Double-A, the Frederick Keys are bounced from Single-A to the new MLB Draft League wher...

Jim and Amanda Addington are now wondering what their summer might look like. For the past six years, the Frederick residents have run a host-family program for minor league baseball players. At just about every Frederick Keys home game, the Addingtons can be found in their seats at Nymeo Field at Harry Grove Stadium, enjoying a game they love and supporting the players they have come to know and help support. But Wednesday’s news the Keys and Baltimore Orioles were parting ways, ending mo...