CUTS COME FOR AA ALUMNI IN MLB CAMPS, BUT EIGHT START SEASON IN BIG LEAGUES
Source: American Association News
By Bob Wirz It does not take a rocket scientist to understand why talented young baseball players will do most anything to achieve that all-America goal of playing major league baseball. The excitement of the bright lights of the best stadiums and the rich salaries–the major league minimum is $550,000–tells it all. So few succeed, even those right on the brink. Onetime American Association players Tim Adleman and Ryan Court are among those with the kick-in-the-teeth feeling these days after being released by the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs, respectively. While a mostly established eight former American Association talents gave the league a nice presence in the “bigs” and more than any other Independent league when the 2019 season started Thursday, Adleman and Court must try to start over in new organizations while others who went into spring training hopeful of making 25-man rosters have to grind it out one more time in the minors and keep trying to reach the promised land of the majors. This group includes former Kansas City T-Bones lefty Mike Kickham, who the Miami Marlins elected not to keep with the parent club despite his miniscule 1.29 spring training earned run average. He held hitters…
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