The Staten Island Yankees and three other defunct minor league teams sued Major League Baseball on Monday, bringing federal antitrust claims in Manhattan to challenge a restructuring that cut 40 out of 160 teams from the league’s century-old farm system for developing players.
The lawsuit was joined by three other teams: the Norwich Sea Unicorns, the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, and the Tri-City Valley Cats—former single-A affiliates of the Detroit Tigers, the San Francisco Giants, and the Houston Astros, respectively.
The realignment, announced in February, “ousted” 40 teams, replacing the market forces that had sustained them with a plan to increase the ...
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