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The Midwest League is a Minor League Baseball league established in 1947 and based in the Midwestern United States. A Class A league for most of its history, the league was promoted to High-A as part of Major League Baseball 's 2021 reorganization of the minor leagues.
Each of the 12 teams of Minor League Baseball's Midwest League carry a 30-man active roster. [1] Only these players are eligible to play. Teams may have any number of inactive players on their rosters at a given time who do not count toward active roster limits. Injured players may be placed on the injured list (7-day or 60-day). [2]
When Cedar Rapids was awarded a Midwest League franchise in 1962, the franchise switched back to the Red Raiders (1962–1964) nickname. Subsequently, the team used the name of the major league franchise it affiliated with: the Cardinals (1965–1972), the Astros (1973–1974), the Giants (1975–1979), and the Reds (1980–1992). The team ...
The Timber Rattlers were seeking their second Midwest League pennant after winning the title in 2012. Lake County went 5-for-6 with runners in scoring position and half of its 12 hits were for ...
After going deep earlier in the game, the @Brewers' No. 8 prospect caps a 3-run ninth-inning rally with a walk-off single to put the @TimberRattlers in the Midwest League Finals! pic.twitter.com ...
South Bend, Indiana, was awarded a Midwest League franchise in 1988. [5] Originally affiliated with the Chicago White Sox and bearing the name of the parent club, the team was renamed in 1994. The name "Silver Hawks" was chosen as an homage to the once popular Studebaker Silver Hawk automobile, which was manufactured in South Bend.
The Midwest League of Minor League Baseball is one of three High-A baseball leagues in the United States. It was previously known as the Illinois State League from 1947 to 1948 and as the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League form 1949 to 1955, but has been the Midwest League since 1956 (with the exception of 2021 when known as the High-A Central). A ...
The franchise is the oldest in the Midwest League and dates back to the league's beginning as the Illinois State League, starting in 1947 in Mattoon, Illinois as the Mattoon Indians. In 1958 the team moved to Keokuk, Iowa , where it spent five seasons as the Keokuk Cardinals ; it was then based in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin ( 1963 – 1983 ...