Baseball in the United States the Atlanta Braves' affiliates except the Carolina Mudcats. Minor League teams that are owned directly by the major league Club do not have PDCs with each other and are not part of the reaffiliation shuffles that occur every other year. A special minor league is the Arizona Fall League. It operates outside the Minor League Baseball hierarchy and is owned by MLB as a whole; teams generally assign prospects from the AAA and AA classes to the league's six teams. Today, 19 affiliated minor baseball leagues operate with 246 member clubs in large, medium, and small towns, as well as
Independent baseball league both teams have frequently worked together to promote baseball in the Upper Midwest. A new independent league, the Southwest League of Professional Baseball, was announced in February 2016 to begin play in 2018. The league will initially consist of six teams in Texas and Missouri. In mid 2017, they announced that they were postponing the league's open until 2019. Independent baseball league An independent baseball league is a professional baseball organization located in the United States and Canada that is not operated in conjunction with either a Major League Baseball team or an affiliated Minor League Baseball team. Being independent