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Atlanta Braves: a fundamental change to the minors coming?

It was last Winter when we first learned that the Atlanta Braves stood to lose two of their minor league affiliates in a restructuring plan hatched by Major League Baseball (MLB).

Those teams were identified as their top-tier Rookie league club Danville Braves and the High-A Florida Fire Frogs.

As it happens, the Fire Frogs had already been relegated to nomad status after their own county kicked them out of town as part of a plan to convert the ballpark to an MLS (Soccer) training complex. They were slated to play what could be their last season at North Port this Summer at the Atlanta Braves new Spring facility, but .