{"id":214503,"date":"2020-12-09T11:01:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=214503"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T22:01:51","slug":"st-paul-saints-officially-becomes-twin-aaa-affiliate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=214503","title":{"rendered":"St. Paul Saints officially becomes Twins AAA Affiliate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis\u00a0 (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio.com\/wccoradio\/local-sports\/local\/st-paul-saints-to-become-twins-triple-a-affiliate\">WCCO<\/a>)\u00a0 The St. Paul Saints baseball operation will become the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n<p>WCCO Radio reports that Twins senior vice president and general manager Thad Levine, says, &#8220;It&#8217;s going to open a world of opportunities for collaboration with our minor league and major league coaching staff. \u00a0It will give us the opportunity to rehab some of our players in our own backyard. It&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re extremely excited about. We started it last year, using CHS Field as our alternate site.<\/p>\n<p>The radio station adds, that news of the agreement comes almost one month after the Twins cut ties with their former Triple-A affiliate, the Rochester Red Wings, the past 18 years.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to St. Paul becoming a AAA franchise, the Twins will move their AA team to Wichita after leaving Pensacola, Fla.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.radio.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/ckihiuy1c003j3a7327dtr2o2@published\" data-editable=\"text\">The Twins are keeping Class A teams in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and Ft. Myers, Fla.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"www.radio.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/ckihiuntf002v3a73a5g3fdk6@published\" data-editable=\"text\">Major League Baseball\u2019s realignment of the minor leagues calls for 120 affiliated teams, eliminating 40 clubs that had been part of the system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minneapolis\u00a0 (WCCO)\u00a0 The St. Paul Saints baseball operation will become the Triple-A affiliate of the Minnesota Twins. WCCO Radio reports that Twins senior vice president and general manager Thad Levine, says, &#8220;It&#8217;s going to open a world of opportunities for collaboration with our minor league and major league coaching staff. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":199256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214510,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214503\/revisions\/214510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/199256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}