winter league
Cold-weather baseball circuit
A winter league is a sports league that operates during the off-season, typically in warmer climates.
The term most often refers to baseball leagues in Latin America and the Caribbean where Major League players historically sharpened skills or recovered from injuries between seasons: He spent three winters playing in the Dominican winter league.
Similar arrangements exist in other sports.
- offseasonPeriod without regular competition
- baseballBat-and-ball team sport
- CaribbeanTropical Atlantic region
- Latin AmericaRomance-speaking Western Hemisphere
- DominicanPreaching order member
Puerto Rico · Venezuela · prospects · rising stars · training · pitching · batting · batting practice · development · tropical · scouts · warm weather · roster · farm system · farm team · exhibition · practice · conditioning
- rec leaguesyouth soccer, youth basketball, youth volleyball, intramural sports, YMCA sports
- Minor Leaguesfarm teams, farm team, Double-A, Single-A, farm system
- Mexican Baseball
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