BaseballBiz & Bruce Voge discuss the Minor League Contraction - Look Back 2020

This is one of our favorite BaseballBiz interviews. 
Bruce Voge, host of the Just Barely Sports, podcast visited us in September 2020 and we took a look at the state of Minor League baseball and the upcoming minor league contractions and the projected impact on players and communities. 
Thanks again to Bruce Voge.

• Bruce to the game and became the welcoming PA voice for the Hagerstown Suns. Love, commitment and a 65 mile drive to the ballpark.
• Generosity of Major League Players to the Minors - Rick Ankiel brought the bats
• MLB Contracts the Minor League teams losing 42 teams – MLB teams should pick 4 teams that they want to keep and drop the rest
• West Virginia had potential to lose 4 minor league teams
• Baseball is the Nation’s pastime and yet several small communities would lose their teams
• Minor League Team 's Marketing and their Logos
• 2016 Save America's Pastime act meant no Overtime for minor leaguers. Initially supported by both Democrats & Republicans in hopes to keep teams
• MLB's direction to contraction and the negotiations with MiLB on a new PBA.
• 3 Options for the minor league contracted teams
  • 1.  Unaffiliated baseball
  • 2.  College Wood-Bat
  • 3.  Fold & Close
• MiLB – Pat O’Connor is gone and MiLB disappears
• Baseball brings everyone together in a community 
• Minor League Normalizes and celebrates their communities with special events from Drag Queen night to Faith nights at the game 
• Covid killed the Minor League season and the economics of hot dogs and ketchup
• Communities used empty fields for serving food to the community in pandemic
• A Look at Minor League Logo Marketing, Louisville Bats & Lakeland Flying Tigers

Music by XTakeRuX  -  Moving Forward
Special Thanks to Bruce Voge - @brucecothinks - @minorleaguegeek - @partygamecast