Replacing Nashville as our AAA affiliate once they get an MLB franchise

[liveforoctober]

I'm posting this Jeff Passan clip here for you to watch..
 

Passan says there is a 100% chance MLB expands to 32 teams in the next 5 years and says Nashville will be one of them.

We had a brief discussion about this very topic in a game thread once upon a time and I couldn't find it. But it's a topic I'd love to know more about.

If Nashville gets selected as an MLB satellite - what do you think are the main priorities for selecting a replacement city? Do we think Madison would be up for it? Could Appleton upgrade? Do we want multiple teams in the same climate/risk of same weather patterns?

I'd be curious how the process would work to get a new AAA team when one is just eliminated like this scenario and isn't 'traded'..

 

[nate82]

The Brewers definitely lose Nashville even if the city keeps the AAA team.  I don't see MLB allowing another team to have a AAA team in a MLB city.  There will also be some contraction in the minors and I wouldn't be surprised after contraction MiLB looks something like this:

The DSL becomes the new low A, the spring training facilities become the new High A and then you have AA and AAA.  The low A and High A would have far shorter seasons.  Wilson moves to AA and Appleton to AAA or vice versa.  That would then open up more teams for the new AA and AAA who were either in low A high A or AA to move to AA or AAA.  I think MLB will start eliminating some of the cities that haven't invested in new stadiums or facilities to be eliminated from MiLB.  This would probably be the dream MLB scenario but I think in the end they only eliminate low A from MiLB.