Nice to see that FLP Danny Sandoval was picked up by the Cleveland Indians in the latest Baseball America MiLB transactions update.  Still nothin’ on Gary - unbelievable that no one has signed him yet.

Thanks to FOTB (friend of the blog) Tricia for alerting me to this story yesterday, and as the title suggests, it cuts pretty close to home: Altanta’s moving their AAA team from Richmond to Gwinnett County, Georgia for 2009.  No matter where the blame lies, you just know that right now there’s a 10 year old boy in Virginia who has cried himself to sleep over the news of the loss of his team.  I lived that moment back in September, and to say it wasn’t fun is probably disrespectful at best.  Unfortunately for baseball fans in Richmond, there doesn’t appear to be any white knight waiting in the wings to move into The Diamond for 2009.

Our genuine condolences go out to our friends in Virginia; as Tricia noted, this news is all a little too fresh.  One can only hope that for AAA teams located more than an hour from the parent club, that this is not the continuation of a trend.

“In a “super-market” the major league club arranges its affiliate minor league clubs into the same geographical region to pick up fertile ground to sell subscription television packages on cable. These networks are not covered in MLB’s revenue-sharing agreement. It is an owners’ bonanza.”