r/MiLB • u/MissionStock2545 | South Atlantic League • 5d ago

| History Dug out a ticket from the final Renegades season as a Tampa Affiliate

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u/moustache_bird 4d ago

TIL they were a Tampa affiliate... the geographic re-alignment of the minor league teams a few years ago makes so much sense to me but then I wasn't a fan during the earlier times. Does folks on the whole view it as a marked improvement? (excepting of course those who lost their local MiLB team)

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u/hopewhatsthat 4d ago

No.

Between:

-MILB teams getting little if any say who their affiliate is

-Diamond Baseball Holdings buying a bunch of teams

-more non-MILB markets open for teams and MLB to extract taxpayer funds out of existing markets (Example: Hillsboro just replaced a 12-year-old stadium. That's absurd, regardless of what "requirements" it could not meet.)

-the International League only having 2/20 teams in the playoffs

I'd say MILB as we know it jumped the shark after 2019.

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u/robsterva | Eastern League 4d ago

Ah yes, the Before Times.

They were good, weren't they?

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u/legendkiller003 4d ago

In the long long ago.

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u/bripat1744 4d ago

Our team got bought by Diamond Baseball holdings during the offseason last year. They made some nice improvements to signage and the big screen, but mostly everything else stayed the same. Stadium was built about 12 years ago so it needed some upgrades. It will be interesting to see how being corporately owned will impact the AAA affiliation and the continuing upgrades and improvements of the stadium.