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Luis A. Dorante (born October 25, 1968, at Coro, Falcón, Venezuela) is the current manager of the Pulaski Yankees in the New York Yankees organization.. He had previously served as the Pittsburgh Pirates bullpen coach from 2008 through 2010, as well as with the Florida Marlins in the same capacity during the 2005 campaign.
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.
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 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.
The Pirates took over the Sarasota Reds, while the Reds became the parent club of the Pirates' former Class A-Advanced affiliate, the Lynchburg Hillcats of the Carolina League. [8] On November 10, 2009, baseball officials voted to allow the Pirates to purchase and uproot the Sarasota Reds. [9]
Derek Lee Shelton (born July 30, 1970) is an American former minor league catcher and first baseman and professional baseball coach.He is the current manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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 franchise traces its roots back to the Kelowna Grizzlies, who were founded in 1993. The Grizzlies were members of the Pacific International League. During their tenure the Grizzlies won the 1995 league championship. Following the 1998 the club suspended operations. The franchise was sold in 2000 and rebranded as the Falcons.