Las Ligas Menores de Béisbol (Minor League Baseball o MiLB, en inglés) son ligas profesionales de béisbol que compiten en un nivel por debajo del de las Grandes Ligas de Béisbol. Anteriormente éste organismo era llamado National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues o NAPBL, por sus siglas en inglés. Todas las ligas son operadas como negocios independientes, pero todas las ligas más famosas son miembros de las Ligas Menores de Béisbol, una supra organización para ligas que poseen convenios para operar como afiliadas a las Grandes Ligas. Varias ligas, conocidas como "Ligas Independientes", no poseen ningún acuerdo o relación con las Grandes Ligas, y por lo tanto no son miembros de la organización de las Ligas Menores. Las ligas menores más destacadas son la Pacific Coast League (Liga de la Costa del Pacífico) y la International League (Liga Internacional), las cuales son clase AAA. La Liga Mexicana de Béisbol es la única fuera de Estados Unidos considerada parte de la MiLB, y está clasificada como AAA. También hay ligas en Venezuela y República Dominicana pero son ligas instruccionales para el desarrollo de nuevos peloteros, cuyos equipos son controlados por organizaciones de Grandes Ligas.

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Minor League Baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in the Americas that compete at levels below Major League Baseball (MLB) and provide opportunities for player development and a way to prepare for the major leagues. All of the minor leagues are operated as independent businesses. Most are members of the umbrella organization known as Minor League Baseball (MiLB), which operates under the Commissioner of Baseball within the scope of organized baseball. Several leagues, known as independent baseball leagues, do not have any official links to Major League Baseball. Except for the Mexican League, teams in the organized minor leagues are generally independently owned and operated but are directly affiliated with one major league team through a standardized Player Development Contract (PDC). These leagues also go by the nicknames the "farm system," "farm club," or "farm team(s)" because of a joke passed around by major league players in the 1930s when St. Louis Cardinals general manager Branch Rickey formalized the system, and teams in small towns were "growing players down on the farm like corn." Major League Baseball and Minor League Baseball teams may enter into a PDC for a two- or four-year term. At the expiration of a PDC term, teams may renew their affiliation, or sign new PDCs with different clubs, though many relationships are renewed and endure for extended time periods. For example, the Omaha Storm Chasers (formerly the Omaha Royals and Omaha Golden Spikes) have been the Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals since the Royals joined the American League in 1969, but the Columbus Clippers changed affiliations, after being associated with the New York Yankees from 1979, to the Washington Nationals in 2007 and have been affiliated with the Cleveland Indians since 2009. A few minor league teams are directly owned by their major league parent club, such as the Springfield Cardinals, owned by the St. Louis Cardinals, and all of the Atlanta Braves' affiliates except the as of yet unnamed team in Kissimmee, Florida, which will begin play in 2017. Minor League teams that are owned directly by the major league club do not have PDCs with each other and are not part of the reaffiliation shuffles that occur every other year. Today, 19 affiliated minor baseball leagues operate with 244 member clubs in large, medium, and small cities, as well as the suburbs of major cities, across the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic. Several more independent leagues operate in the United States and Canada.

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