Forget your program or scorecard – minor league baseball fans might be better served with a compass this year, as play resumes Tuesday following a year-long hiatus due to COVID-19.
Gone are familiar league names like the International League, the Eastern League, the Florida State League and the South Atlantic League.
In their place are directional-heavy monikers — the Triple-A East, the Double-A Northeast, the Low-A Southeast and the High-A East.
And those aren’t the only changes. Also gone are the Pacific Coast League, the Texas League and several lower minor leagues.
Pittsburgh’s top two farm teams remain in Indianapolis and Altoona, respectively, but Indianapolis will play in the Triple-A East Midwest Division instead of the International League and Altoona in the Double-A Northeast Southwest Division rather than the Eastern League.