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
