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The Arizona Complex League Athletics are a Minor League Baseball team based in Mesa, Arizona, which plays as a Rookie-level team in the Arizona Complex League and has served as a farm team for the Athletics organization since 1988. [2] They play their home games at Fitch Park, the minor league spring training camp of the Athletics. [3]
The team first competed in the Arizona League (AZL) in 1997, and has been a member of the league continuously since then. [1] During the 2018 and 2019 seasons, the team fielded two squads in the league, differentiated by suffixes (1 and 2, although some sources list them as Blue and Red). [1]
In 1992, the Colorado Rockies and Chicago Cubs fielded a cooperative team in the Arizona League (AZL), known as the Arizona League Rockies/Cubs. The team was then an affiliate of only the Rockies from 1993 to 2000, and named as such. [2] The teams were located in Mesa (1992–1993), Chandler (1994–1997), and Tucson (1998–2000).
The Phoenix Diamondbacks debuted in 1996, the first affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks to start playing professional baseball, two years before their parent club joined Major League Baseball. A crowd of 6,124 attended the Diamondbacks' first game on June 25, 1996, a 15–7 loss to the Phoenix Athletics.
The team began play in 2003 in the Arizona League (AZL), succeeding the Texas Rangers' prior rookie team, the Florida-based Gulf Coast League Rangers. [1]The team has captured two league championships, in 2010 and 2019.
The team first competed as member of the Arizona League (AZL) from 1989 to 1996. [2] After a four-year absence, the team returned in 2001 and have been members of the league since then. [2]
While the major-league Arizona Diamondbacks began play in 1998, their rookie league team (initially known as the Phoenix Diamondbacks) first competed in the Arizona League (AZL) in 1996, in order to jump start player development, and were the first team with a Diamondbacks affiliation to begin play. [1]
The team first competed in the Arizona League (AZL) in 2003, succeeding the Kansas City Royals' Florida-based rookie team, the Gulf Coast League Royals. [3] That season, the team fielded two squads in the league, differentiated by numerical suffixes (1 and 2). [3]