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The Western Canada Miners (also known as just the Canada Miners) are a professional independent baseball team based in
Yuma, Arizona Yuma is a city in and the county seat of Yuma County, Arizona, United States. The city's population was 95,548 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 census population of 93,064. Yuma is the principal city of the Yuma, Arizona, Metropolitan ...
, and representing western
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. They play in the developmental Arizona Winter League, a short-season instructional winter league affiliated with the North American League and they play their home games at Desert Sun Stadium in Yuma, as well as the San Diego Surf Dawgs, Saskatchewan Silver Sox, Team Canada and Yuma Scorpions. The team uses the logo and uniforms of the now-defunct Mesa MinersAttractions aplenty at AWL opener: Scorpions fall to Miners in first game of winter league
(The Yuma Sun, February 1, 2008) team and are owned by Diamond Sports & Entertainment. On April 3, 2009, the Miners were announced as one of the three charter teams in the new Arizona Summer League, an instructional league also affiliated with the Golden Baseball League. The league was formed following the success of the AWL. In July 2009, after 14 games and no playoff, they were declared the very first ASL Champions. The ASL version was renamed the Bisbee Miners for 2010 and the Mesa Miners for 2011 and possibly beyond. The NAL still owns the rights to the "Miners" brand (including name, logo and uniforms) and a future expansion team would have no ties to the original Mesa team. Some suggest that previously sought-after Canadian cities
Kamloops Kamloops ( ) is a city in south-central British Columbia, Canada, at the confluence of the North Thompson River, North and South Thompson Rivers, which join to become the Thompson River in Kamloops, and east of Kamloops Lake. The city is the ad ...
and
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should be the new home of the brand because of western Canada's rich mining history, similar to the
Saskatchewan Saskatchewan is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Western Canada. It is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and to the south by the ...
team (Regina or Saskatoon are being sought to host the Silver Sox if they continue to express interest).


Season-by-season records

Arizona Winter League: Arizona Summer League:


See also

* Mesa Miners * Bisbee Miners


References


External links


Arizona Winter League's official website

Arizona Summer League's official website

Golden Baseball League
{{Professional Baseball Arizona Winter League teams Professional baseball teams in Arizona