BaseballBiz & Bruce Voge discuss the Minor League Contraction - Look Back 2020

This is one of our favorite BaseballBiz interviews. 
Bruce Voge, host of the Just Barely Sports, podcast visited us in
September 2020 and we took a look at the state of Minor League
baseball and the upcoming minor league contractions and the
projected impact on players and communities. 
Thanks again to Bruce Voge.


Bruce to the game and became the welcoming PA voice for the
Hagerstown Suns. Love, commitment and a 65 mile drive to the
ballpark.

Generosity of Major League Players to the Minors - Rick
Ankiel brought the bats

MLB Contracts the Minor League teams losing 42 teams – MLB
teams should pick 4 teams that they want to keep and drop the
rest

West Virginia had potential to lose 4 minor league teams

Baseball is the Nation’s pastime and yet several small
communities would lose their teams

Minor League Team 's Marketing and their Logos

2016 Save America's Pastime act meant no Overtime for minor
leaguers. Initially supported by both Democrats & Republicans
in hopes to keep teams

MLB's direction to contraction and the negotiations with MiLB
on a new PBA.

3 Options for the minor league contracted teams

1.  Unaffiliated baseball

2.  College Wood-Bat

3.  Fold & Close



MiLB – Pat O’Connor is gone and MiLB disappears

Baseball brings everyone together in a community 

Minor League Normalizes and celebrates their communities with
special events from Drag Queen night to Faith nights at the
game 

Covid killed the Minor League season and the economics of hot
dogs and ketchup

Communities used empty fields for serving food to the
community in pandemic

A Look at Minor League Logo Marketing, Louisville Bats &
Lakeland Flying Tigers



Music by XTakeRuX  -  Moving Forward
Special Thanks to Bruce Voge - @brucecothinks - @minorleaguegeek
- @partygamecast