This come from a web site I read almost everyday  FIELD OS SCHEMES  about  Public money paying for stadiums arenas and the turns into private profit. 

MLB’s minor league hit list would kill 42 teams that cities spent hundreds of millions on stadiums for

Posted on November 18, 2019 by Neil deMause

The list of 42 minor league baseball teams targeted for elimination by Major League Baseball has leaked, and let’s get right to the names marked for death:

• Appalachian League (advanced Rookie): Bluefield Blue Jays, Bristol Pirates, Burlington Royals, Danville Braves, Elizabethton Twins, Greeneville Reds, Johnson City Cardinals, Kingsport Mets, Princeton Rays
• California League (advanced A): Lancaster Jethawks
• Carolina League (advanced A): Frederick Keys
• Eastern League (Double-A): Binghamton Rumble Ponies, Erie SeaWolves
• Florida State League (advanced A): Daytona Tortugas, Florida Fire Frogs
• Midwest League (full-season A): Burlington Bees, Clinton LumberKings, Quad Cities River Bandits
• New York-Penn League (short-season A): Auburn Doubledays, Batavia Muckdogs, Connecticut Tigers, Lowell Spinners, Mahoning Valley Scrappers, State College Spikes, Staten Island Yankees, Vermont Lake Monsters, Williamsport Crosscutters
• Northwest League (short-season A): Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, Tri-City Dust Devils 
• Pioneer League (advanced Rookie): Billings Mustangs, Grand Junction Rockies, Great Falls Voyagers, Idaho Falls Chukars, Missoula PaddleHeads, Ogden Raptors, Orem Owlz, Rocky Mountain Vibes
• Southern League (Double-A): Chattanooga Lookouts, Jackson Generals
• South Atlantic League (full-season A): Hagerstown Suns, Lexington Legends, West Virginia Power 

The whole blog post is here if you want to read it  

I do not like this news at all...thanks for sharing the update

mark

Contraction is always bad for the sport. It seems they really hate the NY-Penn league, which is my local league. I have heard most of those names from reading the local sports news, and saw the Brooklyn Cyclones and possibly the Batavia Muckdogs' home arenas this year with my own two eyes. 

If you think it's bad for the NY-P League (losing 9 of 14 teams), the Appalachian League is losing every team EXCEPT the Pulaski Yankees! Pulaski moves up a level to another league. I don't know why that was the team to keep. The Bluefield Blue Jays have the most championships and I'm sure the Danville Braves are 2nd. The Johnson City Cardinals are usually good and won this year's championship over my hometown Burlington Royals. The Elizabethton Twins have been good for most of my life as well. Besides Burlington, those other teams I listed have had the same affiliation since I was a little kid (along with the Kingsport Mets). I'll to not be able to see baseball in Burlington anymore, but at least there are still a few other teams around me that aren't more than an hour of a drive.

Wow, that stinks Adam. I only recognized the NY-Penn league because it's local. 

Also note that a vast majority of the teams on the list are on the East Coast and are either Singe-A or rookie level. Just a handfull of Double-A teams.

I'm not a MiLB expert, but it looks like every organization may lose at least 1 affiliate. I see the Lowell Spinners on there so that's one for the Red Sox.

I understand that and also know that you aren't into baseball much. I recognized several of the Minor League teams on the list, no matter their location or who they are affiliated with now or in the past.

But the Burlington Royals are the ONLY team in NC on that list. MLB HOFer Jim Thome started his pro career there in 1990. Potential HOFer (minus the PED's) Manny Ramirez started there in 1991 and possible future HOFer CC Sabathia started there in the late 90's (wanna say 1997 or 98). Several other MLB players started there too. Cliff Lee is the next biggest name that comes to mind from my lifetime. The team started in 1945 in the Carolina League but moved to the Appy League in 1986. I really only know about them after the move to Appy.

The TriCity Dust Devils are my hometown team. They have a HUGE following with Fernando Tatis jr., Luis Urias, Trevor Story, and Russell Wilson some of its more famous alumnus. I hope they are able to find another league to play in. Summer nights won't be the same around here without them.

I didn't know Russell Wilson played for them! I knew that he was drafted in the MLB and that he played for the Asheville Tourists while he was at NC State University and transferred to the University of Wisconsin to play more NCAA football. NCSU would not allow him to start at QB if he continued playing MiLB baseball in the football off-season. He refused to limit his options and transferred to UWis. to play another NCAA football season. After that season, he declared for the NFL Draft. Russell knew exactly what he was doing the whole time and the NFL was where he wanted to be. Look where he is now! Owning a Super Bowl ring and with chances to win more of them, he made the right choice. He actually still has baseball-rights held by an MiLB team, Trenton Thunder. Not likely that they'll ever see him play baseball in Trenton! That monster NFL contract he signed early this year surely keeps him away from off-field activities, including other fields in other sports.