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Los Otros D-Backs: Winter Leagues round up Share this story After having reviewed our Dominican D-Backs, we stay south of the American border and visit México ( Liga Beisbol Profesional) to take a look at those other potential major league players of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Again, if you think we missed out on someone in those leagues or in other winter leagues (Australia, Nicaragua, Panama...), share it in the comments and we will look into them. Data were reviewed up till 12/23/2020. Mi...

The Dominican Diamondbacks: LIDOM Winter League round-up Share this story Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Once the MLB wraps up and crowns the World Series winner, south of the American border winter leagues start to prepare for baseball in the off-season. The reasons to play in the winter leagues vary a lot. You have players that just want to stay in shape and visit their homes, like a Vlad Guerrero Jr., and others that desperately try to showcase themselves to get back to a...

The Florida and have had 630 players take the field in a regular season game. This offseason, we’re recapping each of them, and their time spent with our favorite franchise. We’ve already looked at 340 of them. Today’s group of five all had between 75 and 249 PA/BF, finished above replacement level, and were all pitchers. Players are ranked based on brWAR divided by PA/BF. Alejandro Peña is a right-handed pitcher from Cambiaso, Dominican Republic. He signed his first professional dea...

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...

WBBJ TV December 9, 2020 JACKSON, Tenn. — A local sports team announces its uncertain future as a team. Leaders with the Jackson Generals announced they didn’t receive an invite into the newly formed Minor League Baseball system. Back in 1998, the team started out as the West Tenn Diamond Jaxx, eventually changed its name to the Jackson Generals in 2011. Now, the team’s future is uncertain after not being invited into the Minor League Baseball system. In response, the team’s general man...