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