Triple-A (or Class AAA) refers to the highest level of play in minor league baseball in the United States and Mexico.

Purpose[link]

Triple-A teams' main purpose is to prepare players for the Major Leagues. ESPN wrote in 2010:^[1]

Winning is nice, but secondary. It's much more important for a young prospect like outfielder Xavier Paul to get regular at-bats against lefties, or work on dropping down sacrifice bunts with a runner on first, than it is to take three of four from the Portland Beavers.^[1]

Both young players and veterans play for Triple-A teams:

There are the young prospects speeding through the organization on the fastest treadmill, the guys who used to be young prospects who are in danger of topping out in Triple-A, the 30-somethings trying to get back to the majors after an injury or a rough patch, and the guys just playing a few more seasons because someone still wants them and they still want to.^[1]

Players at this level who are on the 40-man roster of a major league team can be invited to come up to the major league club once the major league roster expands on September 1 (though teams will usually wait until their affiliates' playoff runs are over, should they qualify). For teams in contention for the post-season, these players create the flexibility needed to rest regular starters in late regular season games. For those not in contention, recalling such players gives them an opportunity to evaluate their future players under game conditions.

Leagues[link]

Teams at this level are divided into three leagues: the International League, the Pacific Coast League, and the MLB-independent Mexican League. Each of the 30 Major League Baseball teams has an affiliation with one Triple-A team in the United States. However, Mexican Triple-A teams are not included in the organized farm team system.

Current teams[link]

International League[link]

¹ Will host the 2012 Triple-A All-Star Game

Pacific Coast League[link]

Mexican League[link]

Triple-A All-Star Game[link]

The Triple-A All-Star Game is a single game held between the two affiliated Triple-A leagues. Each league fields a team composed of the top stars in their respective leagues as voted on by fans, the media, and club field managers and general managers.

The event has taken place every year since 1988 when the first Triple-A All-Star Game was played in Buffalo, New York. Prior to 1998, a team of American League Triple-A All-Stars faced off against a team of National League Triple-A All-Stars. Traditionally, the game has taken place on the day after the mid-summer Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Triple-A Championship[link]

Since 2006, the annual Triple-A Baseball National Championship Game has been held to serve as a single championship game between the champions of the International League and Pacific Coast League to determine an overall champion of Triple-A baseball. It was originally held annually at AT&T Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; beginning in 2011, it will be held in a different city every year.^[2][3]

See also[link]

• International League
• Pacific Coast League
• Mexican League

References[link]

Notes

External links[link]

• Triple-A Baseball official website
• International League official website
• Pacific Coast League official website

Look up class in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Class may refer to:

General[link]

• Class (education), a group of students attending a specific course or lesson
  • Lessons, in education
  • Classroom
• Class (philosophy), an analytical concept used differently to group phenomena from grouping as 'types' or 'kinds'
• Class (set theory)
• The degree of the dual of a curve, in mathematics
• Class (social), the hierarchical arrangement of individuals in society, usually defined by material wealth and occupation
• Travel class, a quality of accommodation on public transport
  • First class (aviation)
  • First class travel
  • Business class
  • Premium economy
  • Economy class
• Classes of United States Senators, for describing the schedules of elections for Senate seats
• Class (biology), a taxonomic rank in biological classification
• Class (metaphysical), a balance of respect for one's self and for others
• Hazard class, dangerous goods classification
• Ship class, group of ships of similar design

Media and entertainment[link]

• Character class in role-playing games and other genres
• Class (film), a romantic comedy released in 1983
• Class (1998 film), an independent film co-produced by Steve Howey
• Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, a book by Paul Fussell
• The Class (TV series), a CBS sitcom
• The Class (2007 film), an Estonian film
• The Class (2008 film) (Entre les murs), a prize-winning French film
• The Class (Erich Segal novel), 1985
• "Class," a song in the Broadway musical, Chicago
• Class 95FM, a Singaporean radio channel
• Class (TV series), a British television programme, which airs on CBBC
• "Class", an episode of The Protector

Computing[link]

• Class (computer programming), or type of object, a fundamental concept of object-oriented programming
• Java class file, the interpretable bytecode of a compiled Java program
• Class attribute, a feature of many HTML and XHTML elements, typically to identify them for styles
• Complexity class, a set of problems of related complexity in computational complexity theory
• Class (warez), a defunct group in the warez scene

Railroads[link]

• Class (locomotive), a single design of a locomotive as assigned by the railroad
• Classification of United States railroads:
  • Class I railroad
  • Class II railroad
  • Class III railroad

See also[link]

• Klass (disambiguation)

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Look up aaa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

AAA, or Triple-A, may be a three-letter acronym or may just mean something that is high-quality, premier, or excellent.

As a proper noun, Aaa is found only in the species name Cavaticovelia aaa (aaa water treader), an insect from Hawaii.

As an acronym or abbreviation, the term AAA may refer to:

Economical, political, and social[link]

Economical[link]

• AAA Bond credit rating
• American Ambulance Association
• American Arbitration Association
• American Automobile Association a motor club, also called "Triple A",
• Australian Automobile Association, a member of the FIA
• American Academy of Actuaries

Political[link]

• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, US federal legislation
• Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, US federal legislation
• Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, an Argentinian far-right death squad of the mid-1970s
• Alianza Americana Anticomunista ("American Anticommunist Alliance" in Spanish), a paramilitary far-right Colombian organization, 1978–1979
• Alianza Apostólica Anticomunista, in Spain; see 1977 Massacre of Atocha

Social[link]

• Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project, San Francisco, California

Places[link]

• American Airlines Arena a theatre and sports arena in downtown Miami, Florida sponsored by American Airlines

Arts[link]

• Allied Artists Association, an exhibiting society in London founded in 1908
• American Abstract Artists, an artist-run organization formed in 1936 to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art
• Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution archive in Washington, D.C.
• Associated American Artists, an art gallery and art marketing business

Architecture[link]

• Alberta Association of Architects, a regulatory body

Literature[link]

• A. A. Attanasio, Science fiction writer.
• AAA, a Japanese manga by Haruka Fukushima

Language Arts[link]

• Accurate, adequate, and appropriate (AAA), words used to describe the quality of information, details, facts, evidence, etc. in nonfiction reading and writing

Music[link]

• AAA, a series with contemporary art and music initiated by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam
• AAA (band), a Japanese pop band
• "AAA", the sixth track on City (1997), by Strapping Young Lad
• Access All Areas, a series of music CDs by the Scotland rock band Runrig.
• Adult album alternative, a radio format
• Against All Authority (-AAA-), an American ska-punk band
• American Accordionists' Association
• Angels & Airwaves, an American alternative rock band, also commonly referred to as "AVA"
• AntAcidAudio, an independent record label
• The lowest note on a piano (Sub-Contra)