minor league baseball

One year after not signing a rookie contract with the New York Mets, Kumar Rocker will head to the Capital Region to get ready for the 2022 MLB Draft.

One of the few pro athletes ever to play multiple sports, Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders spent part of 1989 playing minor league ball in the Capital Region.

Kelsie Whitmore had played professional baseball before, but this weekend in Staten Island, she did something no woman had done before...be in the starting lineup.

Joe DeLuca was cut from the Cicero-North Syracuse baseball team as a senior in high school in 2013. Nine years later, he's signed a professional baseball contract.

Things got headed at a New York Mets' minor league team's game last night, as a hit-by-pitch led to benches clearing and punches being thrown between the two teams.

Let's take a trip back in time, and remember New York Yankees' hurler Ron Guidry's memorable night in the Capital Region, pitching for the Albany-Colonie Yankees.

It's been nine years since Austin Aune was drafted by the New York Yankees. The former second-round pick is thriving right now...in another sport?

Sahlen Field has seen it all this season. Yet, possibly the most bizarre situation of them all unfolded on the field last night, thanks to Rookie the Bat Dog.

The remnants of Hurricane Ida struck the Northeast last night, and a minor league affiliate of the New York Yankees was one of the storm's biggest victims.

Life for most minor league baseball players is filled with long bus rides; not so great hotels and plenty of fast food. Truly not the formula one would recommend for training a world class athlete. Some players are on their way up to "the show", many are fighting to be noticed, while some are finishing a dream. The Frontier league is filled with all 3.

The St. Paul Saints, an independent minor league baseball team with a history of wacky promotions, are fulfilling the dream of many managers: getting rid of all the umpires. During their May 11 game against the Gary SouthShore Railcats, the Saints will replace umpires with a judge and a jury...