J.J. COOPER
@JJCOOP36
The last few years have been brutal for many who work in minor league baseball.
There was the lost 2020 season. There were furloughs, layoffs and payroll cuts that proved to be an off-ramp for a number of longtime minor league front office employees.
On the heels of that came the MLB-mandated scaling back of the minor leagues from 160 affiliated ticket-selling teams to 120.
The effects of the coronavirus pandemic didn’t end there. When the minors returned in 2021, there were still capacity restrictions for many teams, and there was still a reluctance by
