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The Frisco RoughRiders (often shortened to 'Riders) are a Minor League Baseball team of the Texas League and the Double-A affiliate of the Texas Rangers.Based in Frisco, Texas, the team is named after the 1st U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment during the Spanish–American War, headed by future American President Theodore Roosevelt, nicknamed "The Rough Riders" by the American press.
The Texas League is a Minor League Baseball league which has operated in the South Central United States since 1902. It is classified as a Double-A league. Despite the league's name, only its five South Division teams are actually based in the state of Texas; the five North Division teams are located in Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Each of the 10 teams of Minor League Baseball's Texas League carry a 28-man active roster. [1] Only these players are eligible to play. Teams may have any number of inactive players on their rosters at a given time who do not count toward active roster limits. Injured players may be placed on the injured list (7-day or 60-day). [2]
Their newest affiliate is the Tulsa Drillers of the Texas League, which became the Dodgers' Double-A club in 2015. Geographically, Los Angeles' closest domestic affiliate is the Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes of the California League, which are approximately 40 miles (64 km) away. Los Angeles' furthest domestic affiliate is the Great Lakes ...
Prior to the 1963 season, Major League Baseball (MLB) initiated a reorganization of Minor League Baseball that resulted in a reduction from six classes to four (Triple-A, Double-A, Class A, and Rookie) in response to the general decline of the minors throughout the 1950s and early-1960s when leagues and teams folded due to shrinking attendance caused by baseball fans' preference for staying at ...
The Texas Collegiate League (TCL) is a collegiate summer baseball league made up of teams from the states of Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma. The league's headquarters are in Coppell, Texas . Uri Geva, owner of the Brazos Valley Bombers, is the league's president.
Sun Valley Poly, North Hollywood and Chavez are moving to the Valley Mission League, with Panorama, Reseda and Van Nuys moving to the East Valley League.
In conjunction with Major League Baseball's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Drillers were organized into the Double-A Central. [7] In 2022, the Double-A Central became known as the Texas League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to the 2021 reorganization.