Tucson Saguaros
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| League | Pecos League (Pacific) | ||||
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Tucson, Arizona Bisbee, Arizona (Sundays) |
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| Ballpark |
Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium Warren Ballpark (Sundays) |
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| Year founded | 2015 | ||||
| League championships | 2016 | ||||
| Colors |
Green, black, gold |
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| Ownership | Andrew Dunn | ||||
| Manager | Kirby Campbell | ||||
| Website | www |
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Green, black, gold
The Tucson Saguaros is a professional baseball team based in Tucson, Arizona that began play in 2016. The club is a member of the Pecos League, an independent baseball league which is not affiliated with MLB or Minor League Baseball.
Announced in November 2015 as an expansion franchise, Tucson began play in the 2016 season. The club calls Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium home with the exception of Sunday games - scheduled for Warren Ballpark in Bisbee, Arizona. The team conducts Spring Training at Pascua Yaqui Pueblo Park on the Pascua Pueblo Yaqui Reservation. They are known colloquially as the "Cactus Crew."
The team began signing players for its first season in winter preparing for opening of its training camp in May.
2016 Saguaros manager J.D. Droddy was featured in the 2014 Fox Sports 1 six-episode reality TV show "The Pecos League" as the manager of the Trinidad Triggers. He spent twenty years in the United States Air Force, flying 44 combat missions in the Vietnam War. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1989, he practiced law in Portland, Oregon, but "hated every minute of practicing law." Afterward, he became a college professor, wrote plays, and became a self-taught composer, writing a ballet called the "Lady of White Sands." Before managing the Trinidad Triggers, he was a host for Pecos League players.
The Saguaros opened their inaugural season 6-0, sweeping the Santa Fe Fuego in a 4-game series. In a high-scoring 22-12 victory on Wednesday, May 25, 2016 against the White Sands Pupfish in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the Saguaros had 29 hits and four home runs, one of which was hit by the starting pitcher, Carlos Diaz.
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