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Minnesota Twins

Twins minor league announcer set for major league debut

Aronson will step in for six games for Kris Atteberry.

By Sam Neumann OnJul 8, 2024 0
Syracuse Mets Evan Stockton

Syracuse Mets announcer amazingly predicts home runs in back-to-back innings

Stockton might want to play the lottery.

By Sam Neumann OnApr 30, 2024 0
MiLB Awards

MLB Network will air the first-ever MiLB Awards Show

The MiLB Awards are coming prior to the start of the MLB Postseason.

By Joe Lucia OnSep 13, 2023 0
Jeff Dooley with the Hartford Yard Goats.

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."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnApr 21, 2023 2
Steve Stone and Jason Benetti.

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...

By Andrew Bucholtz OnMar 24, 2023 1
Minor League Baseball

MLB reportedly strikes deal to stream Minor League Baseball games on Bally Live casino app

Games will reportedly stream starting on April 15.

By Phillip Bupp OnMar 23, 2023 0

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.

By Joe Lucia OnFeb 14, 2023 4

Minor league broadcaster’s son joined booth for Father’s Day, told dad jokes

Objectively, adorable.

By Jay Rigdon OnJun 20, 2022 1
The Lynchburg Hillcats logo.

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."

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 13, 2022 0

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!"

By Brandon Contes OnMay 31, 2022 0

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."

By Sean Keeley OnMay 11, 2022 2

‘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.

By Sean Keeley OnSep 5, 2021 2

Savannah Bananas’ Bill LeRoy predicts how he’ll make play while mic’ed up, then does just that

"I literally just called that!"

By Ian Casselberry OnAug 16, 2021 2
The Joe Doyle report on MiLB being cancelled.

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnApr 29, 2020 2
The Minor League Baseball website on Nov. 25, 2019.

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnNov 25, 2019 1
Pardon The Interruption mixed up the Louisville Cardinals (L) and Louisville Bats (R) Tuesday.

ESPN’s Pardon The Interruption showed a photo of the Triple-A Louisville Bats while discussing the NCAA Louisville Cardinals

Missed it by that much.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 4, 2019 1
Donny Baarns calling a game for the A's.

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.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnSep 4, 2018 0

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.

By Ian Casselberry OnApr 6, 2018 0
A walk Friday that ended Jose Siri's hitting streak led to the benches clearing.

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!"

By Andrew Bucholtz OnAug 6, 2017 0
Hourglass Appreciation Night Ogden Raptors

MiLB Ogden Raptors promote sexist “Hourglass Appreciation Night,” offend everyone, yank it

This promotion backfired spectacularly, and it never should have been launched.

By Andrew Bucholtz OnJun 6, 2017 0

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...

By Sean Keeley OnJul 1, 2016 48

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