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ValleyCats will join independent Frontier League | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS Shares0 TROY — The Tri-City ValleyCats will be playing in a new league this year. The ValleyCats announced Thursday that they will compete in the independent Frontier League. Tri-City played in the New York-Penn League, but that league dissolved recently when Major League Baseball contracted the Minor League Baseball system. The ValleyCats, who were affiliated with the Houston Astros, were left out of the restructured MiLB system. “We are excited to join the Frontier League and eager to start this new chapter in...

ValleyCats will play in 2021, after joining Frontier League | The Daily Gazette SECTIONS ERICA MILLER/GAZETTE PHOTOGRAPHER Tri-City ValleyCats manager Ozney Guillen interacts with fans at Bruno Stadium during a game on June 23, 2019. Shares0 TROY — There will be pro baseball at Joe Bruno Stadium this summer, after all. The Tri-City ValleyCats were left adrift when Major League Baseball took over the minors and declined to offer a Player Development License to the ValleyCats and many other teams, but the independent Frontier League has pulled the ValleyCats aboard, making Tri-City its 16th ...

December 31, 2020 By Shelley Byrne The city of Paducah (Ky.) expects to spend thousands of dollars soon to reapply for a permit for strategic dredging of a sediment deposit affecting a business’ offloading of liquid asphalt and threatening the transient boat dock the city built in the last few years. The dredging would not remove the entire mud and grass island at Ohio River Mile 935.2, downstream of the confluence of the Ohio and Tennessee rivers and immediately downriver from the city’s boat dock, as that would cost too muc...

MLB plays hardball – and deals a blow to the heartland Forty-three franchises, about a quarter of the sprawling minor league system, are being eliminated under Major League Baseball's plan. By PAUL NEWBERRYAssociated Press Read Article The Lowell Spinners, a Class A short-season affiliate of the Boston Red Sox since 1996, are one of the casualties of Major League Baseball’s contraction of minor league teams. The Spinners played in the New York-Penn League, which is being entirely eliminated. AP file photo Minor league baseball hasn’t been able to take the field in more than a year ...

After more than 30 years of working with MLB-affiliated baseball teams, Murphy was caught off guard to see the list released without any prior notification the Cats wouldn't be affiliated any longer. The Tri-City ValleyCats had been the Short Season Single-A ball affiliate of the Houston Astros since 2002. The Cats were three-time champions of the now-defunct New York Penn League and easily one of the best ways for a family to enjoy professional baseball and more without breaking the bank. Hearing one of the driving forces behind the team we all love say MLB didn't even let them know this lis...