As Americans devolve into insane shopping maniacs today, we can reflect on the glory of minor league baseball and review the excellent play that happened on Thanksgiving Day in winter ball. With most of the Mexican League schedule rained out, the majority of the action happened in Venezuela.

Happy Thanksgiving for those who are in the United States! It is a great day to spend time with family and friends and prepare for spending exhorbitant amounts of money tomorrow! Let's take a look at the top performers in minor league baseball on Wednesday:

A 21-inning marathon capped the action on Tuesday evening around minor league baseball, with the action focused in the Latin winter leagues.

With no games on Monday, we will have a statistic-heavy minor league baseball thread today. The Australian Baseball League has only played one weekend, so rate stats will not be used. Enjoy!

After the first weekend of Australian winter league, we're back to the Latin leagues again until the weekend, though today there are no games scheduled to be played at all, so look for a heavy dose of leaderboards tomorrow!

The Australian Baseball League closed the first weekend of play with a huge day of play. Big offensive showings from multiple minor league baseball players down under were the highlight of Saturday's play.

Big games in winter league ball were the name of the day on Friday with multiple games with 10+ runs scored. Minor league baseball stars led the way for Latin winter league scoring as well.

In order to get you the coverage on the Australian Baseball League, I will offer up the previous day's scores and offer the games being played the day of this (likely already played by the time of posting) and the next day's games on each of the minor league baseball daily posts while the ABL is underway. Enjoy!

The Australian Baseball League got a late winter league start but made a big impact with some huge performances in that first night of games. Let's take a look at all the excellent winter ball performances!

Latin winter leagues continue to bring tremendous performances around minor league baseball as some of the top prospects and up-and-coming players show out each night. All four Caribbean Series leagues are now underway, and the Australian league opens today with games!