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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 Athletics farm system consists of six Minor League Baseball affiliates across the United States and in the Dominican Republic.Four teams are independently owned, while two—the Arizona Complex League Athletics and Dominican Summer League Athletics—are owned by the major league club.
The Arizona Complex League (ACL) is a rookie-level Minor League Baseball league that operates in and around Phoenix, Arizona, since 1988. Prior to 2021, it was known as the Arizona League ( AZL ). Along with the Florida Complex League (FCL), it forms the lowest rung on the North American minor-league ladder.
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).
Fitch Park is a baseball park complex and training facility located in Mesa, Arizona. [2] It is the spring training workout facility for Major League Baseball's Athletics.It is also the year-round home for the Athletics' minor league training and player development operations, the home ballpark of the Arizona League Athletics, and the spring training home for the Athletics' minor league ...
There are ten stadiums in use by Arizona Complex League baseball teams, all located in Arizona. The oldest is Tempe Diablo Stadium (1968) in Tempe, home of the Angels. The newest stadium is Sloan Park (2014) in Mesa, the home field of the Cubs. One stadium was built in each of the 1960s and 1980s, three in each of the 1990s and 2000s, and two ...
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]
The Arizona League Brewers were one of four teams to compete in the inaugural Arizona League (AZL) season of 1988. [1] The short-season Rookie classification league was created to serve as a developmental league, similar to extended spring training, specifically for recently drafted high school and Latin American players. [2]