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Prior to 2021, the team was known as the Gulf Coast League Pirates. The team plays its home games in Bradenton, Florida , at the Pirate City complex. The team is composed mainly of players who are in their first year of professional baseball either as draftees or non-drafted free agents from the United States , Canada , Dominican Republic ...
The Detroit Tigers visit the Pittsburgh Pirates at 4:05 p.m. Saturday, March 46, 2024, in Bradenton, Florida.
Pirate City is the site of minor league and spring training activities for the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League.The complex is located in Bradenton, Florida, and serves as the site of the Pirates spring training workouts, while nearby LECOM Park (formerly known as McKechnie Field) is the site of the team's home spring training games.
The league adopted Gulf Coast League (GCL) naming for the 1966 season. It expanded to Florida's east coast in the 1990s. Historically, three separate leagues also used the Gulf Coast League name: a 1907–1908 Class D league, a 1926 Class D league and a 1950–1953 Class C (1950) and Class B League.
Greensboro, North Carolina: First National Bank Field: 2019 Single-A: Bradenton Marauders: Florida State League: Bradenton, Florida: LECOM Park: 2010 Rookie: FCL Pirates: Florida Complex League: Bradenton, Florida: Pirate City Complex: 1969 DSL Pirates Black: Dominican Summer League: Boca Chica, Santo Domingo: Pirates Academy 2018 DSL Pirates Gold
The Pittsburgh Pirates farm system consists of seven Minor League Baseball affiliates across the United States and in the Dominican Republic.Four teams are owned by the major league club, while three—the Indianapolis Indians, Altoona Curve, Greensboro Grasshoppers—are independently owned.
Spring Training 2019 at LECOM Park. LECOM Park is a baseball field located in Bradenton, Florida.It is the spring training home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and is named after a 15-year naming rights deal was signed with the Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, which has its main campus in Erie, Pennsylvania, and also a campus in Bradenton. [2]
The Pirates moved the team to Bradenton, where they were renamed the Bradenton Marauders. [8] The Marauders became the first Florida State League team located in Bradenton since the Bradenton Growers folded in 1926. [10] The Marauders are also the Pirates' first affiliate in the Florida State League since the Leesburg Pirates ended play in 1948.