Private Equity Now Owns More Than 40 Minor League Baseball Teams, And The Number Keeps Growing

Private Equity Now Owns More Than 40 Minor League Baseball Teams, And The Number Keeps Growing

Private equity is the steamroller that crushes all your favorite things. Journalism, for one, and also a once iconic toy store; even bowling these days. Now it has come for minor league baseball, where in little more than three years one private equity firm has managed to buy up a healthy percentage of the MiLB teams in the United States.  Diamond Baseball Holdings, a company backed by the private equity firm Silver Lake, has acquired 45 Minor L…

White Sox Minor Keys: July 10, 2025 - Sox Machine

As Diamond Baseball Holdings continues to gobble up minor league franchises — more than 40 of the 120 full-season affiliates and counting, including the Charlotte Knights, Birmingham Barons and Winston-Salem Dash — the end goal of a private equity-backed company owning such a massive percentage of minor league baseball concerns remains unclear. Over at Defector, […]