farm league

Definitions

1. 1

   One or more minor league teams owned by a baseball franchise and used as a training and…

   One or more minor league teams owned by a baseball franchise and used as a training and testing ground for rookies, who, if they perform well, move on to play in the main major league team.

   • The Yankees entered the farm league business in 1929 when they purchased Chambersburg in the Class D Blue Ridge League.
   • Still, the Colonial League experiment was successful enough in its first season for the Federals to become interested in pursuing it as a farm league for its excess players.
   • Now, understand, you would probably go in the farm league before going up in the majors.
2. 2

   A minor league team from which scouts recruit players for the major league.

   • Now the CEO of Isiah International Inc. has his sights set on nothing short of establishing an official farm league for the NBA, establishing a system similar to the one which currently operates in Major League Baseball.
   • Scenarios were floated that the CFL and WLAF would merge or that the CFL would revert to a fall schedule and become a farm league for the NFL.
   • Heading into their third year, a minor league coach judged the Capitals to be an “average hockey team”—by the standards of a farm league club.
3. 3

   A position or venue from which talent is recruited for showing potential.

   • An industry source told MP3.com that the site is "supposed to be a farm-league thing.
   • Hire from the farm league. I constantly counsel church leaders to hire from within.

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