minor-league
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After slowly climbing the minor-league ladder, Kerr made his MLB debut for the San Diego Padres in 2022 at the age of 27.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
“All the reports that we’ve gotten from our minor-league staff are right on cue,” Ebel said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
“The game tends to humble everybody,” Cardinals minor-league hitting coordinator Brock Hammit said, “and he got humbled.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Tyler Glasnow is scheduled to make one more minor-league start, consisting of five innings and 75 pitches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 2026
“He hightailed it out of there, but didn’t manage to exit unseen. There was a man there, a minor-league ballplayer named Jacob Carlyle. He was the one who came forward as the witness.”
From "Fast Pitch" by Nic Stone
We might eventually see coaches earning less than million-dollar salaries while NFL teams, valued at tens of billions of dollars, create their own minor league.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Barring a setback in his final minor league rehab appearance, he could be activated in time for the playoffs.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
Padres minor league coach and Venezuelan native Oswaldo Pirela is home in Arizona after his release from ICE custody, but he still faces deportation proceedings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
The San Diego Padres minor league catching coordinator is in the custody of the U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 19, 2026
But all these were minor league teams that played only in local and regional contests.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
