MOORHEAD, Minn., July 3, 2025 – Because it reaches the season’s midway level, Sioux Metropolis turned the primary American Affiliation of Skilled Baseball (@AA_Baseball) group to achieve 30 wins. All common season video games within the MLB Associate League stay free for dwell viewing on AABaseball.television.
Listed here are 10 (or so) Issues to Know concerning the AAPB this week:
- Sioux Falls Canaries outfielder Josh Rehwaldt and Chicago Canines starter Jeff Lindgren received the American Affiliation’s Rawlings batter and pitcher of the month in June. Rehwaldt led the league in hitting in June, going 37-for-91 (.407) with 5 doubles, a league-high 10 dwelling runs, 20 walks and a league-high 30 runs batted in.
- Stateside, they’re celebrating Independence Day on Friday. However Winnipeg received a bounce on the festivities with a Canada Day matinee win over Fargo-Moorhead on Tuesday, marking the primary time since 2019 that the Goldeyes hosted a recreation on the nationwide vacation.
- Augustana College and the Canaries are two of Sioux Falls’s proudest establishments. This week, Jordan Barth, who Sioux Falls Reside proclaimed the varsity’s best-ever slugger turned all-star shortstop for the AAPB squad, talked to native media persona John Gaskins about his experiences and his wonderful season (.335/.382/.601, 9 HR, 33 RBI) thus far.
- Talking of All-Stars, the AAPB’s greatest and brightest will descend on Fargo-Moorhead July 21-22 for the annual Carbliss All-Star Sport at Newman Outside Area. The All-Star Abilities Competitors/Jeremiah Johnson Brewing Firm Dwelling Run Derby will happen on Monday, July 21, earlier than gamers from across the Affiliation take the sphere on Tuesday, July 22, for the All-Star Sport. The East and West All-Stars might be introduced subsequent week, with followers having the chance to pick the “Final Man In” for each squads by visiting the league Web site.
- Previous to the Dwelling Run Derby, from 8 a.m. via 2 p.m. CT, the league will maintain the Champro Futures Tryout Camp. Potential gamers can register right here for the post-MLB Draft occasion.
- Kansas Metropolis has managed to put up the league’s third-best document at 28-19 regardless of a number of of its standouts discovering houses with MLB associates and the Mexican League. They took a step in replenishing a few of that misplaced expertise with the addition of infielder Micah Pries, who hit 56 dwelling runs and drove in 200 runs in 4 seasons within the Cleveland group, together with the previous three years with the AAA Columbus Clippers. Pries celebrated with a three-run dwelling run in his debut on Tuesday at Gary SouthShore.
- The Chicago Canines this week introduced that the contract of pitcher Austin Marozas has been transferred to the Toronto Blue Jays group. Marozas pitched to a stellar 0.64 ERA over 28 innings (17 video games, one begin) for the Canines. He’ll start his MiLB journey with the Florida Complicated League Blue Jays.
- The contract of Sioux Metropolis pitcher Zach Willeman was transferred to the Cincinnati Reds final week after the righty posted a 4-2 document with 65 strikeouts and a 2.34 ERA in 50 innings over eight begins for the X’s. Willeman pitched 5 shutout innings in his debut for Chattanooga (AA) on Tuesday to earn the victory.
- La Moderna Area, dwelling of the Cleburne Railroaders, will host a school baseball match, February 27-March 1, 2026, together with prime Division I applications Abilene Christian, Creighton, Tarleton State, and Texas State, REV Leisure, which runs the Railroaders, introduced on Monday.
- Galli Cribbs, whose connection to the Kane County dates again to 2015 when the Cougars had been a member of the Midwest League affiliated with the Arizona Diamondbacks, introduced his retirement. Cribbs has been a Cougar yearly the group has been a part of the AAPB (2021-present).
- A few of this week’s notable promotions throughout the league embody:
- It’s Now or By no means because the Chicago Canines Can’t Assist Falling in Love on Elvis Evening on Saturday. Followers are inspired to don their greatest Elvis garb for a Little Much less Dialog, a bit of extra baseball.
- Friday evening is “Crush Most cancers Evening” in Sioux Falls for the Canaries vs. the Sioux Metropolis Explorers
- Monarchs followers might be Nibblin’ on Sponge Cake and Looking for Misplaced Shakers of Salt on Margaritaville Evening in KCK on Saturday.
- Media curiosity in AAPB stays robust. A number of the latest articles on groups embody:
In regards to the American Affiliation
The American Affiliation of Skilled Baseball (www.aabaseball.com and www.aabaseball.television) is a Main League Baseball Associate League that operates in 9 states and one Canadian province. Shaped in 2006, the league consists of twelve member golf equipment with many starting play in 1993. By the top of 2024, over 59 gamers with American Affiliation expertise had made their debut with MLB golf equipment after having first performed within the American Affiliation.
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