‘This Week in the Minors’ is our weekly look at notable performances from all over the system, from big-name prospects and less heralded guys alike. The mission is to answer this simple question: “Who had a good week?”
Today, we’ll cover results from Tuesday, May 4 through Sunday, May 9.
Since the last time we had a TWitM column, the whole landscape of minor league baseball has changed. MLB took over the system, made brutal cuts to dozens of towns and cities, and realigned all the leagues.
Omaha and Northwest Arkansas survived the takeover as the Triple-A and Double-A Royals affiliates, but this year we have new Single-A teams: the High-A Quad Cities River Bandits, and the Low-A Columbia Fireflies.