Friday, March 30, 2018

Much More MiLB in Canada

Particularly Ontario.

Greater Toronto has about 6.5 million people.  7th most populous on the continent.

I've posted before, listing a fictional farm system for the Montreal Expos future affiliations, and I coined the Ottawa Internationals as their Triple-A club.  What other Trip-A and 'Dub-A clubs could be housed in Canada, the International and Eastern Leagues respectively?
Winnipeg      Quebec City        Mississauga*  Brampton*   Hamilton*
*Toronto suburb (cities hooked to T-town pretty much)  
             What about a team called the Halifax Citadels?
London, Ontario is halfway between Detroit and Toronto.  Good place for a ball yard.
Windsor is across the divide and Detroit.
Winnipeg's Shaw Park, American Association League (non-MLB affiliated).  Goldeyes Baseball.  Over 7,400 seats

In the Pacific (AAA) and Pioneer (rookie-advanced) leagues, cities like Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver (who already touts a team in Northwest short-season-A ball league)
                                                                                   Current basepads in country
Here AA stands for the Amer.Assoc. independent league, 
where a Milwaukee team is expanding into
The suburb of Surrey, then Saskatoon and Regina on top of those sound good?

Okay, so there's like 30 municipalities that could easily house a pro baseball squad with their nearly a million, half a mil' and hundreds of thousands populations.  Let me pick a few with some breathing room from or in the big metros.

London Ontario could house the Ontario Horsemen.
                                                      or Gold Shoes
Windsor Casinos
           Quebec Nordes 
BC Westerners
          Edmonton Fielders
Calgary Coldies
             Halifax Citadels
Hamilton Zambonis
           Winnipeg Winnies or Manitoba Manshees sound funnier than BC Banshees
Brampton Boaters           Saskatchewan Big Feet             Sudbury Suds                     ...what else ?

Cities like Vancouver standing to gain the big leagues eventually.
In the meantime, thoughts can be had toward some creation of a northern division in triple-A

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