Baseball America reported today that the Minor League Baseball organization (MiLB) is coming close to an agreement with Major League Baseball to contract down to just 120 minor league teams across baseball (four minor league teams per major league team).
Each MLB team had a system that looked like this for 2019 (we used the Minnesota Twins as the example):
- Major League Baseball: Minnesota Twins
- AAA: Rochester Red Wings
- AA: Pensacola Blue Wahoos
- A: Fort Myers Mighty Mussels
- Low-A: Cedar Rapids Kernels
- Domestic Rookie League: Elizabethton Twins, Gulf Coast (GCL) Twins
- Foreign Rookie League: DSL Twins
In addition to this, the teams also have several short season teams that play in the New York–Penn League, Northwest League, Appalachian League, or Pioneer League, as these levels are designed to help get college players signed and right into games.