Minor League Baseball will change as we know it

Photo by Daniela Porcelli/Getty ImagesThe working agreement between Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball expires at the end of this season, and the last year or so has indicated that major changes are coming to the very structure of the minors.

Details of the reported paring of affiliated teams from roughly 160 to 120 are pending, but Baseball America has been at the forefront of that news for months.

On Thursday, ESPN reported about the changing structural relationship between MLB and MiLB:

The minor league system as it has existed for decades will effectively end when the current agreement between MLB and MiLB expires Sept. 30. MiLB’s offices in St. Petersburg, Florida, will be…