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Foul ball almost takes out sheep herd at MiLB game
"That's a long way down the line, heads up sheep!"
Twins minor league announcer set for major league debut
Aronson will step in for six games for Kris Atteberry.
Syracuse Mets announcer amazingly predicts home runs in back-to-back innings
Stockton might want to play the lottery.
MLB Network will air the first-ever MiLB Awards Show
The MiLB Awards are coming prior to the start of the MLB Postseason.
Jeff Dooley, voice of Hartford Yard Goats, gets called to majors after 25 years for a weekend series
"I'm sure I'll be running on adrenaline. I'm just so excited to get to Major League Baseball."
Steve Stone on selling pre-paid funerals while in minors: ‘It wasn’t the happiest job around.’
Athletes have often wound up with odd offseason or even in-season jobs while competing in leagues that don’t...
MLB reportedly strikes deal to stream Minor League Baseball games on Bally Live casino app
Games will reportedly stream starting on April 15.
MLB.TV now includes Minor League Baseball games (and a $10 price increase)
MLB.TV will include a whole bunch of extra content this year, and will cost an extra $10.
Minor league broadcaster’s son joined booth for Father’s Day, told dad jokes
Objectively, adorable.
After a minor league announcer reported an assault, the team posted her job for the next season without talking to her
"To me, it felt like a very obvious response to what had happened. They didn’t want to have a broadcaster become a liability on the road."
Stephen Strasburg was “freezin ’em like pay raises at a poorly run cryogenics laboratory”
"Stephen Strasburg, ask for his credit card info in a spam email message. Let’s go phishin, with a PH!"
Minor league broadcaster Joey Zanaboni keeps going viral, but will it ever translate to the big leagues?
“I think if I was a Major League Baseball announcer, whatever team hired me would quickly have the most-talked-about broadcast in America."
‘Melting faces like a misplaced microwave at an ice sculpture competition!’ is a baseball call you didn’t know you needed
Get ready to work that phrase into your daily life for the next few days.
Savannah Bananas’ Bill LeRoy predicts how he’ll make play while mic’ed up, then does just that
"I literally just called that!"
Baseball America tweets that Joe Doyle “is not a Baseball America staffer or regular BA contributor” after his MiLB report
Doyle's Lookout Landing report on MiLB led to Baseball America distancing themselves from him.
Minor League Baseball hires Octagon to sell its media rights, and there are predictions its low-seven-figure deal “could easily double”
MiLB currently has about 6,700 games annually, plus shoulder programming. And there's a good chance they could get paid more for the rights to those games in today's media landscape.
After a decade in the minors, a NYT feature helped Donny Baarns get a chance to call a regular-season Oakland A’s game
In his 11th season of calling minor-league baseball games, Baarns finally got the chance to be part of a regular-season MLB broadcast.
Remembering Steven Bochco’s attempt at sports drama, Bay City Blues
The renowned TV producer created a minor league baseball dramedy that only lasted four episodes.
Pitcher ends hit streak with pitch behind batter, eventual walk, announcer calls it “gutless”
"That was a gutless move by Ryan Moseley, and the Los Angeles Dodgers' organization!"
MiLB Ogden Raptors promote sexist “Hourglass Appreciation Night,” offend everyone, yank it
This promotion backfired spectacularly, and it never should have been launched.
Associated Press using automated writing service to cover minor league games
As the news industry evolves, the usage of automated writing technology to create stories is only going to...
