Has anyone been to a Blue Rocks game lately? Our minor league baseball team has been off my radar screen since the kids went off to college. How’s the experience? Anyway, it looks like they plan on sticking around for a while.
WILMINGTON – Two years after worries that Delaware might lose its longtime Minor League Baseball team amid a nationwide restructuring, the city can breathe easier after the Blue Rocks extended their lease for another seven years.
The new lease at Judy Johnson Field at Daniel S. Frawley Stadium in Wilmington’s Riverfront runs through the 2030 season, with an extension option, allaying the fears made real in other markets where MiLB teams chose or were forced to move markets. The Blue Rocks prior lease was set to expire at the end of the 2023 season that starts in April. Finalized before the New Year, the new agreement has been formally approved by Major League Baseball, which manages the MiLB, officials announced this week.