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Jeff Johnson of the Cedar Rapids Gazette has this on his blog about the new Brewer-Timber Rattler partnership.

Finally, a Player Development Contract in the Midwest League that makes sense.
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The deal ends a 16-year partnership between Wisconsin and the Seattle Mariners. That means the longest-tenured marriage in the league is now the Cedar Rapids Kernels and Los Angeles Angels. The Kernels-Angels and Timber Rattlers-Mariners had been tied.

There is a bit more at the link.