Teams didn’t wait for the final Minor League Playoff game of the year to get a wild season of affiliation changes underway. But for the San Francisco Giants, only one affiliation is possibly going to change.
Of the Giants’ five affiliates, they have extended their partnership agreements with four of them; only the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes remains unextended. The Volcanoes are the Giants’ short-season A-ball affiliate, one of the lowest levels of the Minors. It is often home to the Giants’ top draft picks, and was where #2 overall pick Joey Bart spent much of the season.