Your Guide to Off Season Play
Off-season doesn't mean the action stops completely!
I haven’t even managed to get to the season wrap-ups and already it’s (sub-)season preview time? Good gravy! This stuff never ends!
That’s right, baseball almost never ends — fortunately for all of us brain-addled lovers of the beautiful game. While last Friday’s post contained the very last box score of the 2022 minor league season — guess what, the first box score of the 2022 minor league OFFSEASON comes tonight! That’s when the Arizona Fall League begins its six week sojourn through a lovely, somewhat cooling desert backdrop.
Shortly on its heels will come the winter leagues, with action taking place in Dominican Republic (Liga de Beisbol Dominicano, or LIDOM), Venezuela (Liga Venezuela Beisbol Profesional, LVBP), Puerto Rico (Liga Beisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente, LBPRC), and even Australia (Australian Baseball League), as well as smaller leagues in places like Nicaragua, Colombia, Panama and more.
Information on these leagues can get a bit sketchy — virtually none of the teams that play in these leagues has announced a roster yet (and the rosters can be somewhat fluid in-season as well). I haven’t even seen a schedule out of the LVBP as of yet — and they normally begin mid-month. I’m also not exactly sure how the presence of the World Baseball Classic will effect some of these leagues — as countries gear up their national team for play in that tournament, some of the smaller leagues might not mount a full season this year. We shall see!
Anyway, let’s take this moment to set up what is known for the winter, and give you as much of a suite of resources as I can get my hands on to help you follow along as you will. Throughout the winter, I will keep you up to date on Giants-related activities in these leagues — including stats, injuries, major highlights, whatever I can get my hands on.
With that, let’s take a twirl around the leagues to get you ready for the offseason, which I guess is sort of an ONseason for the guys taking part!
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