The other day a report came out that Minor League Baseball was prepared, out of necessity, to give in to Major League Baseball’s demands that 40 minor league teams be contracted. Minor League Baseball quickly followed up with a statement that the report was inaccurate, but that negotiations were ongoing.
Just now, MLB and MiLB released a joint statement updating everyone on what’s happening. The answer, for now, is nothing:
The fact that they’re on the same page with this sort of message just a couple of months after they were at each other’s throats, with increasingly provocative and combative public statements being issued back and forth, is quite the thing. Then again, we’re living in quite a time.
It certainly suggests to me, however, that we will soon get news of a major contraction of Minor League Baseball.
