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The newest stadium is Daybreak Field at America First Square, home of the Pacific Coast League's Salt Lake Bees, which will open for the 2025 season. The highest seating capacity of all active Triple-A teams is 16,600 at Sahlen Field, where the International League's Buffalo Bisons play. The stadium with the lowest capacity is Tacoma's Cheney ...
Of these, 120 teams in 11 leagues (from Triple-A to Single-A) are each affiliated with one MLB team through a standardized professional development license. Additionally, three leagues consisting of a total of 85 Rookie teams are located at MLB spring training complexes in Arizona and Florida , as well as in the Dominican Republic. [ 1 ]
Jackie Robinson, then with the Triple-A Montreal Royals in July 1946. Prior to 1946, the top level of Minor League Baseball was Double-A, which had been established in 1912. [3] [4]: 236 The Triple-A classification was created before the 1946 season, and began with all three leagues then in Double-A moving up to the new level: [4]: 15
The current structure of Minor League Baseball is the result of an overall contraction of the system beginning with the 2021 season. Class A was reduced to two levels: High-A and Low-A. Class A Short Season teams and domestic Rookie League teams that operated away from Spring Training facilities were eliminated. [4]
Triple-A was established as the highest classification in 1946, and Class A1 became Double-A, with Class A through D remaining. [3] These six levels continued through 1962. [ 2 ] The Pacific Coast League (PCL) was reclassified from Triple-A to Open in 1952 due to the possibility of becoming a third major league.
Their newest affiliates are the Triple-A Sugar Land Space Cowboys of the Pacific Coast League and the High-A Asheville Tourists of the South Atlantic League, which became Astros affiliates in 2021. Geographically, Houston's closest domestic affiliate is the Sugar Land Space Cowboys, which are approximately 20 miles (32 km) away.
The team was originally known as the Oklahoma City 89ers from 1962 to 1997 and played at All Sports Stadium. The 89ers competed in the Triple-A American Association (AA) in 1962, moved to the Pacific Coast League from 1963 to 1968, and returned to the AA from 1969 to 1997. After the American Association disbanded, the 89ers rejoined the PCL in ...
The 2022 game was the culmination of a three-day event called the Triple-A Triple Championship Weekend, in which league champions of the IL and PCL were determined on the first two days, and the Triple-A National Champion was crowned on the last. On September 30, the two division winners from the PCL competed for their league championship.