World News – CA – Winnipeg Goldeyes League teams up with Major League Baseball

The American Association and Frontier League announced a deal Thursday that makes them designated partners with MLB

Although the deal has been made, the leagues are still working on all the details The deal will see the leagues work together on initiatives to help provide baseball to communities in Canada and the United States

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« We welcome the American Association and Frontier Leagues as partner leagues, and look forward to working with them to achieve our common goal of expanding the geographic reach of baseball, » said the vice-president. -MLB Executive Chairman, Baseball Economics & Operations Morgan Sword in a press release

But the deal goes much further than that, according to Goldeyes Chairman and CEO Sam Katz, who called it a historic moment for the industry

“This means that we will be working hand in hand with Major League Baseball,” said Katz “I can give you some of the possibilities that could come up For example, Major League Baseball would host an All-Star game in post-season there will be a new logo with Major League Baseball There will be screening, etc., a uniform player contract, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg « 

The agreement will allow the American Association to maintain its independence as it will not become an affiliated league

“They see what we’re doing here, they see the great things we’re doing and they want us to be apart from their families to help develop baseball,” American Association commissioner Joshua Schaub told Global News « Issues such as cross-marketing, promoting our games, cross-marketing with individual Major League teams For example, Winnipeg could have cross-marketing with Toronto

With this deal, the American Association will still set its own rules, but this move should only help develop the talent of the league Major League Baseball will now have access to video and technology to better spot players Teams like the Goldeyes will still be able to sell player contracts to Big League teams, but more players will be exposed

« They will still have the option of selling this contract to the New York Yankees, » Schaub said. « But in fact in this scenario the Baltimore Orioles can also step in and claim the rights to this player So there are a lot of details that need to come through. We have a framework agreement that we will go into detail on in Q4 « 

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