Meaning of farm league | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A minor league team from which scouts recruit players for the major league.
   broadly
3. A position or venue from which talent is recruited for showing potential.
   broadly

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Assessing the historical record, former presidential aide and student of the Presidency Theodore Sorensen once quipped that some Presidents use the Executive Office “as a farm league, some use it as a source of experts and implementers, and some use it as Elba."”

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