minors
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- noun
- /ˈmaɪnərz/
- US
- You you're thinking that you're going to do college sports and then transition to the minor leagues of the major leagues, right?
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Examples
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I thought we were just in the minor leagues trying to get the bigs.
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I used to be a slugger in the Minors, little fella.
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Think he even played in the Minors.
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But yeah, this is my good buddy Mike, who played minor League Baseball as well.
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I was referred to your blog just today by a guy who spent some time in the Minors.
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I almost bought the minor League Baseball team with Tony Hsieh, who unfortunately passed.
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My son played in the minor leagues for the Cubs and he's also been a high school and a college pitching coach.
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He would play one more year in the Minors (San Francisco Seals) before retiring from baseball for good in 1949.
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Corny is a mascot for the Normal Corn Belters, a minor League Baseball team based in Normal, IL.
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My son played in the minors for the Cubs before moving up to the major leagues.
Synonyms
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3.0
A group of sports teams that play below the top professional level
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3.5
A level in a sports league below the top one where teams are weaker
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8.9
A low-level baseball league often used to describe something of lower quality
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Etymology
The word minors comes from minor, which means 'smaller' or 'lesser' and is the same root as minority. So the minors are the smaller, lower-level leagues below the majors, which is why players often move up from the minors to the big leagues.