It’s been known since at least 2019 that Major League Baseball planned to contract some of its affiliated minor league teams. What has only come fully into view in the last week or so is the scale of the desecration Rob Manfred and Co. had in mind.
Major League Baseball has murdered the minor leagues.
The coup de grâce came a little over a week ago when it was announced that not only was MLB reorganizing the structure of the minor leagues, they were even removing the historic names of those minor leagues.