minor leagues

Jordan Dean knows what it’s like to chase a big league dream. After being drafted in the 15th round by the Detroit Tigers in 2012, the Michigan-native spent eight seasons playing pro baseball. But after this past season with the Chicago Dogs, Dean decided he’d had enough. It was time to move on. “I was fortunate enough to have...

It was the winter of 1993. Bill Melton – who played for the White Sox from 1968 to 1975 – was living in Chicago and working as a Sox ambassador. One day, out of nowhere, he got a request from the team’s general manager. It was a request that would put him at the center of the biggest secret in…

The Chicago Cubs and San Francisco Giants are pushing ahead with pay raises for minor league players this season, days after Major League Baseball mandated salary bumps beginning in 2021