Whether you’re a fantasy baseball devotee, a baseball fanatic, or a big league fan, Major League Baseball has a new Web site for you.

The official Web site of minor league baseball is getting a makeover this spring. Major League Baseball bought the minorleaguebaseball.com site in the offseason with an eye toward jazzing it up and making it more fan friendly.

“We’re trying to get as many people as we can over to minorleaguebaseball.com, which is more informational since the major leagues took it over,” said Sammy Arena, Major League Baseball advanced media senior project manager. “We just want people to know the site is now interactive and people can go to it for more info than it had before.”

The site’s first foray into increased interactive capability came Thursday, when minorleaguebaseball.com aired the Cox Sports Television broadcast of the Indianapolis Indians’ home and season opener against the Pawtucket Red Sox. Later on, it aired live audio of the Iowa Cubs’ opener against the Albuquerque Isotopes. Both webcasts were free.

The Pawtucket webcast, featuring Red Sox ace Curt Schilling as the starter, was aired live at 3 p.m. while the Cubs audio webcast featuring Prior aired at 9 p.m. If you missed both or either, you can still watch or listen to them on the site as they will be archived.

“All they need to do is go to the site and click on the webcast icon to get it,” said Arena.

Arena said the number of game webcasts hasn’t been determined. Neither has a fee figure. So for the time being, all webcasts on the site are free.

“We actually have no idea how many of these we’ll be doing,” Arena admitted. “We just want to get our feet wet with these two games. We’ll have a lot more stuff once the first week’s worth of games are played.”

The site’s official launch date was April 1. What once was primarily an informational site will now feature information, stories, video, and other content with daily updates.

“Eventually we want minorleaguebaseall.com to look more and more like majorleaguebaseball.com,” Arena said.

The envelope please …

Rumford native and University of Maine alumnus Gary Tanguay has been nominated for three New England Emmy Awards.

A Mexico High School graduate and former intern at Bangor TV station WABI, Tanguay co-hosts the New England Sports Tonight show on Fox Sports Net New England. He has received nominations in the sports reporter, sports special, and non-news promotional announcement campaign categories.

Overall, FSNNE has received seven nominations. The winners will be announced at the Boston/New England Emmy Awards ceremony May 7 in Boston.

Empty radio seas north for Dogs

The Portland Sea Dogs radio network – one of the largest in minor league baseball the last few seasons – has been downsized so far this year.

A switch of flagship stations from WMTW (870 AM) to WBAE (1490 AM) – both Portland stations – also brought with it a change in number of affiliates: from 12 to six with none of the current affiliates located any farther north or east than Lewiston and Rumford. Ironically, the Sea Dogs’ network does include one in Rochester, N.H., station WMEX (106.5 FM).

Andrew Neff can be reached at 990-8205, 1-800-310-8600 or at aneff@bangordailynews.net