MiLB restores historical league names

Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty ImagesNo more Triple-A West or Double-A Northeast or Low-A Southeast in Minor League Baseball.

And good riddance to that.

Minor League Baseball on Tuesday announced that it would reinstate its historical names for the 11 leagues that make up the player development system for Major League Baseball’s 30 teams.

According to a story posted on milb.com, those historical league names were replaced in 2021 by regional/directional names while MLB was acquiring the rights to the old names.

The minor leagues did not operate during the 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Peter Woodfork, Major League Baseball’s senior vice president of Minor…