Farewell Greeneville Reds

The Appalachian League is converting to a college summer league:

https://www.mlb.com/appalachian-league/new-vision

Man, I really hate what they're doing to the minor leagues. Jeff Luhnow is outed as a disgraced cheater, but they still go along with his pet project to overhaul and destroy the minors for "efficiency" (ie: cost-cutting) reasons.

The minors are the best part of baseball. I can't believe they're destroying it. Baseball the industry is as dumb as baseball the game is great.

So i am assuming that this will be like the Cape Cod league - wooden bats?

For those keeping score at home, that's now 10 minor league franchises killed.

Man I really thought it wasn't possible to have a more out of touch commish than Roger Goodell... MLB exceeded that by many levels. #FireManfred.

It seems kind of strange that while trying to increase the game's popularity the bean-counters would destroy teams that have been part of baseball and fans' lives for decades. Pretty stupid and short-sighted in my opinion, and not a very good reflection of Rob Manfred's leadership.

This is what happens when people who hate baseball are running it.

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Originally Posted by KronoRed

This is what happens when people who hate baseball are running it.

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One might argue this could be related to capitalism, but this might not be the proper forum to discuss that.

Didn't we just buy the Greeneville Reds?

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Originally Posted by podgejeff_

Didn't we just buy the Greeneville Reds?

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Yes..... but it's probably a lot less complicated than you think.

The Reds bought the rights to the franchise. But they didn't buy any land, a stadium - none of that. They leased the stadium from a local college. They outsourced running the franchise from a non-player personnel/coaching to Boyd Sports (they do this for a handful of teams in the Tennessee area).

I do not know how much the Reds paid for the franchise, but it was probably a very small amount of money.

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Originally Posted by dougdirt

Yes..... but it's probably a lot less complicated than you think.

The Reds bought the rights to the franchise. But they didn't buy any land, a stadium - none of that. They leased the stadium from a local college. They outsourced running the franchise from a non-player personnel/coaching to Boyd Sports (they do this for a handful of teams in the Tennessee area).

I do not know how much the Reds paid for the franchise, but it was probably a very small amount of money.

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Ah. That's not so bad then.

They probably gave a dollar for the franchise. The Astros were the Greeneville team for about 8 years prior to the Reds coming in. Greeneville just needed a team to come in.