The Tupper Lake Riverpigs are an independent minor league baseball team based in

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that plays in the

Empire Professional Baseball League The Empire Professional Baseball League (EPBL) is an independent baseball league that began play in 2016. The Empire League plays a 40-game regular season followed by a five-game post season. The four-team league consists exclusively of teams fr ...

. The Riverpigs play their home games at Tupper Lake Municipal Park and have been managed by former

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Darren Ford since 2024.

History

The Riverpigs played their inaugural

(EPBL) season in 2020. They finished that season at 7–18, which was tied for the worst record in the EPBL, but enjoyed moderate success in their second season, going 22–20. They beat the Plattsburgh Thunderbirds for the EPBL Championship in 2022 and posted a league-leading 32–9 record. They won the championship again in 2024, beating the Thunderbirds despite finishing with a worse record. The Riverpigs' two EPBL championships are the most by a single team in the league's history, which dates back to 2016.

Year-by-year results

Affiliations

The EPBL is not affiliated with

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—as such, the Riverpigs and the rest of the league's franchises serve as farm teams meant to give young, inexperienced players an opportunity to stay in shape and work their way towards being signed to higher-level contracts with MILB-affiliated or other independent teams. Additionally, Riverpigs players—as well as players from the rest of the EPBL—can have their contracts selected to play for the Empire State Greys, a

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that competes in the MLB-partnered

Frontier League The Frontier League (FL; French: ''Ligue Frontière'', LF) is a professional baseball league in North America composed of 18 teams – 15 in the United States and 3 in Canada. The FL is one of the eight independent baseball leagues in North Ame ...

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