Perhaps no decision in decades has so fundamentally altered America’s game like Major League Baseball’s elimination of 42 minor league affiliates before the 2021 season. Pulling out of 25% of its minor league towns would reportedly cut costs on what some considered to be an anachronistic player development system. Never mind that Juan Soto, with his $765,000,000 contract, will make in ten at-bats roughly the $700,000 MLB will save annually for each minor league team they cut.
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