Tacoma Rainiers
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The Tacoma Rainiers are a minor league baseball team that play in the Pacific Coast League, and are the AAA affiliate of the Seattle Mariners. Since 1960, a team in Tacoma, Washington has been in the PCL, the longest current active streak of membership in the league.
Tacoma's first entry in the PCL was the Tacoma Tigers, who joined the league in 1904, having moved from Sacramento after the 1903 season. The 1904 Tigers won Tacoma's first PCL pennant, finishing first in both halves of the split season schedule, 7 games (annualized) over the runner-up Los Angeles Angels. The 1905 Tigers won the first-half championship, then played so poorly in the second half they moved back to Sacramento, finishing out the season as the Sacramento Solons, and losing the postseason series to the Angels. The PCL would not return to Tacoma for another 55 years.
The current franchise was founded in 1960 when the Phoenix Giants, an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants, moved to Tacoma and became the Tacoma Giants. For the next 19 years, the team mirrored the name of its parent major league club, being known through the years as the Tacoma Giants (1960-1965), Tacoma Cubs (1966-1971), Tacoma Twins (1972-1977), and Tacoma Yankees (1978). Subsequently, the team was known as the Tacoma Tugs (1979-1980) and, once more, the Tacoma Tigers (1980-1994).
The team adopted the Rainiers name in 1995, partially as an homage to the Seattle Rainiers minor league teams that played in Seattle from 1938 to 1964 and again from 1972 to 1976. The Tacoma Rainiers play their home games at Cheney Stadium, which hosted the baseball portion of the 1990 Goodwill Games.
As the Tacoma Tigers, the team was an affiliate of the Oakland Athletics between 1981 and 1994, and both José Canseco and Mark McGwire went through Tacoma on their way to baseball stardom. Alex Rodriguez also played for the team before becoming a superstar.
Current AAA Roster
Pitchers
- Jorge Campillo
- Mike Nannini
- Jon Huber
- Bobby Livingston
- Cha Seung Baek
- Scott Atchison
- Jeff Harris
- Justin Huisman
- Francisco Cruceta
- Cesar Jimenez
- Jesse Foppert
- Sean Green
- Rich Dorman
- Clint Nageotte
- Aaron Looper
- Renee Cortez
- Dan Wright
Catchers
- Rob Johnson
- Brian Schweiger
- Guillermo Quiroz
Infielders
- Asdrubal Cabrera
- Jose Morban
- Scott Youngbauer
- Michael Garciaparra
- Hunter Brown
- Greg Dobbs
- Bryan La Hair
Outfielders
- Adam Jones
- Shin Soo-Choo
- Chris Snelling
- TJ Bohn
- Jon Nelson
Coaching Staff
- Terry PollreiszCoach... Coach
- Dave Brundage... Manager
- Dwight Bernard... Pitching Coach
- Brady Feutz... Strength and Conditioning
- Rob Nodine... Trainier
References
- O'Neal, Bill. The Pacific Coast League 1903-1988. Eakin Press, Austin TX, 1990. ISBN 0-89015-776-6.
- Snelling, Dennis. The Pacific Coast League: A Statistical History, 1903-1957 McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, NC, 1995. ISBN 0-7864-0045-5.
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