farm team

noun

baseball
: a minor-league baseball team that is associated with a major-league team

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Buried in the minor leagues with a 3.42 ERA for the Mets' top farm team, the right-hander was granted his release on June 27. Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 July 2025 Abbotsford now is the top farm team of the Vancouver Canucks. Steve Lyttle, Charlotte Observer, 13 June 2025 His most recent start was against the Yankees’ Triple-A farm team last Wednesday. Chuck Murr, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025 Her grandfather played for the Yankees’ farm team the Newark Bears. Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 17 Mar. 2025 Breazeale would see action in only one more game in 1969 and spent all of the 1970 season with the Triple-A Richmond Braves, Atlanta's top farm team. Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025 The 2024-25 edition of the farm team didn’t make the playoffs. Allan Mitchell, New York Times, 18 May 2025 Here’s why: In today’s freewheeling college football industry, the Aztecs served as a farm team by developing Simmons for a higher-level program. Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2025 In 2022, Blankenhorn played all but one of his 92 games with the Mets' top farm team, remaining in the organization twice after being designated for assignment. Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025

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