VOTE: Both Iowa High-A ballparks make Round of 16 best ballparks (Modern Woodmen Park in QC and Perfect Game Field in CR)
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Been around for a few decades. Clubs basically had two single-A clubs, and started making one a level up the ladder of the other. The old Midwest League was Low-A, but it shed some smaller teams and became the High-A Central League of the Midwest.
These days a lot of top prospects play in Double A and then go to the Majors from there. Triple A is a lot of veterans who are there for depth and then few prospects. It is a bit different in Minnesota anymore with St. Paul being the AAA team. I know Kiriloff, Larnach, and Gordan all started there this year as did their top pitching prospect.
From MLB.com ...
Low/High-A Ball:
A-ball is the first step toward playing a legitimate professional season as a baseball player. It's where players first have Spring Training and prepare themselves for a 140 game season stretching just over 5 months. Players coming straight out of high school are usually assigned to Low-A while college players, especially ones who come out of major college programs, can start their first full season at High-A.
Other levels ...
Rookie Ball/Short Season:
The MLB draft happens in the middle of the major league season, so a lot of younger players aren't ready to hop into the middle of an ongoing season, especially players drafted straight out of high school. That's what the short season, or rookie ball season, is for. Short season ball is meant to let newly drafted players get acclimated to the life of a major league ballplayer, with varying degrees of travel involved. For example, the South Atlantic League is one without a whole lot of rigorous travel involved, which works best for players just coming out of high school or for international players acclimating to the United States for the first time.
Double-A Ball:
Double-A baseball is where you'll find a lot of talent. Since it's one step closer to the major leagues, it weeds out a lot of players who don't make the cut talent-wise. At the same time, the amount of talent it takes just to get to Double-A is such a high bar that anyone making it even to this level has major league potential. Double-A is also known as the beginning of the 'upper minors'. Since the competition is so much better, pitchers are usually a lot more advanced than those at Single-A. Double-A pitchers are usually the ones talented enough to not only have the pitching ability to succeed, but the mental preparation to get the most out of that talent, and the same goes with the hitters at this level. Sure, you'll find players with major league experience at the Double-A level, but more often than not this level is full of players who are still ascending to the majors.
Triple-A Ball:
The closest level to the majors, Triple-A is filled with all kinds of players. Some are the game's rising stars, although some of the best players can skip Triple-A and move directly from Double-A to the major leagues. Triple-A is also full of players who have major league experience, some of them having quite a bit of it, as well as established major league players that are rehabbing from injuries that have kept them out of action for an extended period of time. With the combination of old and new stars as well as the occasional major leaguer or two, Triple-A baseball is a fan-favorite place to see all kinds of fan favorite players.
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In terms of the parks alone, PGF and MW are fairly similar. They're typical minor league stadiums. MW has an amazing location and superior scenery. It obviously has an edge, overall, for those reasons. I also like the brick exterior at MW much more than the boring cinder blocks of PGF. It's like comparing the exterior of Kinnick to Jack Trice.
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Minor league parks must not have much going on for them I take it.
PGF seems pretty bland and is located in a pretty bland spot as well.
PGF seems pretty bland and is located in a pretty bland spot as well.
What are you talking about? It didn't make the list.
(Though I do like how PGF sits on a hill and has a nice view of downtown past the outfield.)
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