The Frontier League introduced that they are going to be increasing to Mississippi in 2025.
With the Double A Mississippi Braves transferring to Georgia on the finish of the season, Trustmark Park in Pearl, Mississippi has opened up for one more crew to name the park residence.
The enlargement crew would be the seventeenth crew within the league as of proper now.
This announcement has left many questions on the way forward for the league. Mississippi is nicely outdoors of the geographical area that the Frontier League is understood for; Thus prompting many individuals to marvel when and the place an 18th crew can be introduced.
One other query mark can be journey and the league’s divisional arrange. Pearl is a 24 hour drive from the northern most crew (Quebec) and nonetheless at a minimal over 7 hours away from the closest present Frontier League crew.
Commissoner Steve Tahsler was quoted within the Clarion Ledger from in the present day’s press convention giving some hints as to what’s to come back.
The league is presently contested by 16 groups together with three in Canada, who’re evenly divided into two divisions. The Mississippi crew would be the league’s seventeenth crew with a yet-unannounced 18th crew deliberate for 2025.
Tahsler stated with 18 groups within the league for 2025, there can be a brand new scheduling format and the league can be cut up into 4 divisions, as an alternative of the present two-division mannequin.
The Mississippi crew can be part of the Western Division, which can embody the St. Louis crew and three groups from the Chicago space.
Officers stated the 18th crew can be introduced subsequent week, and also will be in a Southern metropolis. Will probably be part of the Japanese Division. The Japanese and Western Divisions will play regularly with a rotating schedule that may deliver each crew within the league to each metropolis, even those as distant as Canada, each two years.
“Scheduling can be just like what you see for SEC soccer proper now,” Tahsler stated.
Hypothesis can be that Alabama may be a match for the Frontier League. There are former minor league stadiums in Cell and Hoover that aren’t getting used for that function now.
The official league announcement could be learn under.
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
PEARL, MS – The Frontier League is happy to announce its latest enlargement crew, which can be positioned in Pearl, Mississippi.
After yet one more record-breaking season, the league can be increasing to 17 groups. Mississippi’s New Frontier League Group can be enjoying its video games at Trustmark Park, the previous residence of the Mississippi Braves. The chance for enlargement got here into play when the M-Braves, who presently function the double-A minor league affiliate of the Atlanta Braves, introduced that they’d be relocating to Columbus, Georgia after the 2024 season. They’d been in Pearl since 2005.
The crew can be owned by Joseph Eng, who additionally owns the Gary SouthShore RailCats of the American Affiliation. Eng is an skilled expertise government and member of the manager crew at Billtrust, the place he’s liable for product and expertise for the enterprise. He has held comparable roles at TravelClick, a journey hospitality information and software program supplier, JetBlue Airways, and SWIFT, the worldwide messaging community for the monetary trade. TBH Sports activities & Leisure will handle the crew on behalf of Mr. Eng.
2025 would be the second straight yr of enlargement for the Frontier League, after including New England for the 2024 season. “Your entire Frontier League is happy to welcome Trustmark Park and Pearl for our 2025 season,” stated Commissioner Steve Tahsler. “Mississippi has an impressive baseball custom, and we’re honored so as to add the Frontier League as an possibility for gamers and followers.”
17 groups marks a brand new excessive for the Frontier League, surpassing a number of seasons the place the league supported 16 groups. The league can also be set to announce an 18th crew in the course of the third week of September.
Mississippi’s New Frontier League Group, its key members, and followers can vote on the crew’s new title between September ninth and September twenty fifth by way of Main League Baseball’s OnDeck platform. Potential crew names are:
1. Mississippi Mud Monsters
2. Mississippi Grits
3. Mississippi Soul Shakers
Sustain with updates and solid your vote on the Frontier League’s latest crew on its new web site!
