The Cardinals’ four full-season minor league affiliates are scheduled to open the season on May 4th, 2021. In this piece, I will preview the Palm Beach Cardinals, now the Cards’ Class Low-A Affiliate after being re-classified from Class-A Advanced.
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RE-CLASSIFICATION
It is first important to note that that the old Florida State League, in which the Cards’ Palm Beach affiliate used to play, has been switched from a Class A-Advanced League to a Low-A League. Palm Beach and Peoria have swapped classifications. This was basically designed to reduce inter-affiliate travel among successive minor league classifications within an organization.