Major League Baseball means to take a band saw to its low minors.
A Major League Baseball proposal would drastically alter the landscape of minor league baseball, severing the major league affiliations of 42 teams in the lower levels of the minors. Some of those teams have been part of their communities for generations, like the Chattanooga Lookouts, whose roots date to 1885; some are playing in stadiums built as recently as 2008, when the Billings Mustangs’ Dehler Park opened.
This particular team that MLB wants to cut bothers me. It bothers me a lot.
A Major League Baseball proposal would drastically alter the landscape of minor league baseball, severing the major league affiliations of 42 teams in the lower levels of the minors. Some of those teams have been part of their communities for generations, like the Chattanooga Lookouts, whose roots date to 1885; some are playing in stadiums built as recently as 2008, when the Billings Mustangs’ Dehler Park opened.
This particular team that MLB wants to cut bothers me. It bothers me a lot.
Billings (Mont.) Mustangs
Level: Advanced Rookie
League: Pioneer League
Major league affiliate: Cincinnati Reds
I entered this plane of existence in Billings in 1955 (Deaconess Hospital) and this team was already there. I've never seen them play. Always wanted to, probably never will.
And it's not like these teams don't have options. Since MLB seems intent on plowing the Pioneer League under, it would seem to be a great candidate for another independent minor league like the one that currently operates in this part of the country.
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