Hey Lou , The Atlantic League will play this summer . Not sure when their season will start . High Point has signed 8 players that have playing time in MLB , 4 of them are pitchers . We went to a game last summer . The game we attended was a Wednesday 10:30 am game , so we did not spend the night . Almost walking distance , is a midrise hotel on Main Street . The Rockers home page will give you the player’s history while playing in the Majors .
David , Jesse is on today on Ballpark Digest . Jesse is on today on Ballpark Digest . Had to get the spaces in David . June 3rd .
So since Target Field opened in April 2010, there have been exactly three new MLB stadiums that have opened.
Miami: “We’re going to bulldoze a football stadium and build baseball’s first avant-garde, neofuturistic stadium!”
Cumberland, Georgia: “We’re going to decamp from the city to the suburbs and build a car-dependent mixed-use development with a baseball stadium remarkable only for its very blandness and mediocrity.”
Arlington, Texas: “Hold. My. Beer. I SAID HOLD MY BEER!”
Thomas Boswell once wrote that every stadium built primarily for baseball has been beautiful. That was nice while it lasted, I guess.
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That thing is fugly. It looks more like a Butler Building megachurch on the side of I-85 in South Carolina.
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For all of us baseball fans , Ballpark Digest has a important article on minor league baseball . There will be major changes before the start of 2021 spring baseball season .
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I’m assuming this is the article you’re referring too, I’m not in-tuned enough with MLB and minor league to know what this all means, but the final paragraph definitely stood out:
“There will be a lot of news about the next phase of minor-league baseball under MLB control. Some of it will be good; much of it will be bad. So brace yourselves for an offseason of change.”
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Yes Drew , This is the article . I talked to Rick White , President of The Atlantic League & he said that they would also be affected but he did not give any details .
Looks like Nashville already has a potential team name lined up. The Nashville Stars would be a historical shoutout to a Negro League era team from Nashville. Looks like they have some heavy hitters (no pun intended) on board too…
Feel this might set off some ‘where the billionaires at’ hate on the forum 
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I would love to get their AAA Team to Raleigh! Raleigh Capitals would be Super!
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i was looking over the https://mlbraleigh.com/ site for the first time. i thought their info seemed promising-sounding, but didnt know what they might be leaving out of their analysis. i guess they are a legit group im not sure. i didnt know if on other boards MLB had been poopoo-ed in raleigh. there was a link on the page about expansion coming sooner rather than later though. but i was wondering if mlb came to downtown are their cities that work with local or private transit that help facilitate travel to games in city cores from the suburbs on a good sized scale? add extra busses to some park and ride locales roughly midway from suburb to core on game days and nigths like a game-ticket and transit package? i looked at a hypothetical route from possum track road in raleigh to penmarc drive downtown…basically a sort of cumbersome 16 to 25 mile drive. using triangle town (or other easily accesible lot in extreme n. raleigh for instance) as park n ride - is this a doable or an often done thing with pro sport arenas in downtowns? thx i glanced at the commecia park in detroit satellite and they did have a few multi level decks. thx
How about a AAA team called the Raleigh Matadors or Bullfighters. 
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durham has bulls…seems fitting.
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Realistically feel like Nashville will get a team either from relocation or expansion. Montreal probably could get an expansion team. Vegas/Oakland is probably 50/50. If there’s another expansion team I’m not sure who it goes to - there’s a gap in North Carolina but not sure either city in the state has an ownership group or ballpark plan.
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Wow this is the first I’ve ever heard of this. Apparently the Baltimore O’s might be on the move to Tennessee?
Maryland will do everything to keep the Orioles in Baltimore for two reasons.
1: Even after getting the Ravens and the Ravens winning two Super Bowls, the state is still traumatized about losing the Colts even though the Colts have been in Indianapolis longer than they were in Baltimore.
2: The eminent domain laws that were hastily passed to try to keep the Colts from moving that led to them moving under cover of night in Mayflower vans still are on the books and Annapolis wouldn’t be afraid to go down that road.
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Agreed. And as sad as the O’s have been on the field, they’re a popular large-market team with a stadium that’s one of the jewels of the league. Hard to see them moving.
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Rich people fighting over billions. Sounds like a family squabble and one son is using the threat to move the team as a bargaining chip. Who knows?
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I agree, Camden Yards is a gem of a stadium to catch a game at. The way it blends in with the warehouse-y looks is great IMO.
@jdb820 yeah this seems destined to a ugly family courtroom drama for sure. The O’s are a long time franchise in the city so it’d take heaven and earth to get them out of there. Especially, as you point out, with the city’s experience of already losing a team.
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Lol greedy people suck. My jaw would drop to the floor if they actually end up in Tennessee. Camden Yards may be the best ballpark in the country, it’s gorgeous. It’d be a huge shame if the greed of someone let this happen.
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as a former raleighite i wouldnt want to screw some other town over (hartford) but mlb in raleigh with a Carolina (insert thing a ma jigger) would be nice.