Not a shocker in the least, but Baseball America is the first to break in detail that the MiLB season is, officially, off.
It’s not a shock, and teams have already been making attempts to be resourceful and open up their parks to alternate revenue streams. The Pensacola Blue Wahoos put their ballpark on Airbnb for rental, and at South Side Hit Pen Jake Mastroianni wrote about his Father’s Day experience at Birmingham’s Regions Field.
None of the White Sox affiliates are close enough to Chicago to serve as alternate player training sites, and if there is some sort of extended Fall League or simple workouts at team complexes for players who don’t make the 60-man roster cut, it won’t be any time soon — Arizona (in the White Sox and 14 other teams’ case) and Florida (the other half of MLB) are currently ravaged with COVID cases and are, simply, unfit for training.