Minor League Systems Question
Curious if someone can explain a little bit about how the minor league systems work in relation to the majors.
Is every minor league club affiliated with a top team?
Is every player on a minor League list technically eligible for a call up to the majors at any time or do minor league teams have their own players and the players associated with the majors are the only ones who go up or down?
Are there multiple minor leagues at each level eg AAA and how does that work? Are they region based or does each major league team have a team in each league or even multiple?
And one final question about Major league baseball, why are the two LA teams not only in different divisions but different leagues as well? That seems odd to me.
Australian here so sorry if any of this is common knowledge.