By all accounts, Allentown has proven to be a tremendous host city for minor league baseball. However, the general manager of the Lehigh Valley IronPigs now says that the team’s future as the Triple-A affiliates of the Philadelphia Phillies is unclear.
Kurt Landes — the president and general manager of the IronPigs — says that the team is willing to commit $1.5 million towards stadium upgrades, and told Stephanie Sigafoos of 91.3 WLVR that the franchise has secured $5.7 million “in either committed funds, or funds that have been requested.”
While that puts them well over the original $6 million budget that was believed to be needed to upgrade Coca-Cola Park, “spiraling costs and inflation” have now increased the amount needed to $9.