Abstract
Existing territorial rules provide limits to how close any given Major League Baseball team can be to its minor league affiliate at any level. Restrictions are also in place limiting the proximity of affiliated minor league teams from other minor league baseball teams. Working within the existing distribution of Major League and affiliated minor league baseball teams, I provide detail on how to efficiently allocate the affiliations of minor league baseball teams at each level across Major League Baseball teams. What emerges is a better understanding of the limits to achieving regionalization for the entire league.
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Quotes taken from “Hunter to return Sunday, after rehab assignment,” accessed June 18, 2014, at http://baltimore.orioles.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140605&content_id=78396184¬ebook_id=78414130&vkey=notebook_bal&c_id=bal
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Alternatively, the Orioles may have needed to change the date of the rehab assignment to coincide with the date one of their minor league affiliates was playing a home game.
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Affiliations between some Major League Baseball teams and some minor league baseball teams changed in October 2014. Some, but not all, of these new affiliations are discussed in Chapter 5.
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Not all minor leagues have affiliation models like affiliated baseball. Note that NBA D-League teams may have affiliations across more than one NBA team.
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Notice that the San Jose Giants took the name of their affiliate Major League parent team.
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Ringolsby (2014) discusses Portland’s status as a possible location for a Major League Baseball team.
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Attachment 58 of the Major League Rules stipulates stadium capacity of 10,000 for Triple A, 6,000 for Double A, and 4,000 for A-level baseball.
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Rhoads, T.A. (2015). Another Affiliation Allocation Model. In: The Call Up to the Majors. Sports Economics, Management and Policy, vol 7. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8924-5_4
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