List of Triple-A baseball stadiums

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First Horizon Park, one of the newest stadiums in Triple-A, opened in 2015. It is the home of the International League's Nashville Sounds. First Tennessee Park, April 20, 2015 - 2.jpg
First Horizon Park, one of the newest stadiums in Triple-A, opened in 2015. It is the home of the International League's Nashville Sounds.

There are 30 stadiums in use by Triple-A Minor League Baseball teams, which are the top affiliates of Major League Baseball clubs. The International League uses 20 stadiums, and the Pacific Coast League uses 10. The oldest stadium among these teams is Cheney Stadium, home of the Pacific Coast League's Tacoma Rainiers, which opened in 1960. The newest stadium is Polar Park, home of the International League's Worcester Red Sox, which opened in 2021. The highest seating capacity of all active Triple-A teams is 16,600 at Sahlen Field, where the International League's Buffalo Bisons play. The stadium with the lowest capacity is Tacoma's Cheney Stadium, which seats 6,500.

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Stadiums

International League

NameTeamCityStateOpenedCapacityRef.
121 Financial Ballpark Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp Jacksonville Florida 200311,000 [1]
AutoZone Park Memphis Redbirds Memphis Tennessee 200010,000 [2]
CHS Field St. Paul Saints Saint Paul Minnesota 20157,210 [3]
Coca-Cola Park Lehigh Valley IronPigs Allentown Pennsylvania 200810,100 [4]
Coolray Field Gwinnett Stripers Lawrenceville Georgia 200910,427 [5]
Durham Bulls Athletic Park Durham Bulls Durham North Carolina 199510,000 [6]
Fifth Third Field Toledo Mud Hens Toledo Ohio 200210,300 [7]
First Horizon Park Nashville Sounds Nashville Tennessee 201510,000 [8]
Harbor Park Norfolk Tides Norfolk Virginia 199311,856 [9]
Huntington Park Columbus Clippers Columbus Ohio 200910,100 [10]
Innovative Field Rochester Red Wings Rochester New York 199710,840 [11]
Louisville Slugger Field Louisville Bats Louisville Kentucky 200013,131 [12]
NBT Bank Stadium Syracuse Mets Syracuse New York 199710,815 [13]
PNC Field Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders Moosic Pennsylvania 198910,000 [14]
Polar Park Worcester Red Sox Worcester Massachusetts 20219,508 [15]
Principal Park Iowa Cubs Des Moines Iowa 199211,500 [16]
Sahlen Field Buffalo Bisons Buffalo New York 198816,600 [17]
Truist Field Charlotte Knights Charlotte North Carolina 201410,200 [18]
Victory Field Indianapolis Indians Indianapolis Indiana 199613,750 [19]
Werner Park Omaha Storm Chasers Papillon Nebraska 20119,023 [20]

Pacific Coast League

NameTeamCityStateOpenedCapacityRef.
Cheney Stadium Tacoma Rainiers Tacoma Washington 19606,500 [21]
Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark Oklahoma City Dodgers Oklahoma City Oklahoma 19989,000 [22]
Constellation Field Sugar Land Space Cowboys Sugar Land Texas 20127,500 [23]
Dell Diamond Round Rock Express Round Rock Texas 200011,631 [24]
Greater Nevada Field Reno Aces Reno Nevada 20099,013 [25]
Las Vegas Ballpark Las Vegas Aviators Las Vegas Nevada 201910,000 [26]
Rio Grande Credit Union Field at Isotopes Park Albuquerque Isotopes Albuquerque New Mexico 200313,500 [27]
Smith's Ballpark Salt Lake Bees Salt Lake City Utah 199414,511 [28]
Southwest University Park El Paso Chihuahuas El Paso Texas 20149,500 [29]
Sutter Health Park Sacramento River Cats Sacramento California 200014,014 [30]

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Current Triple-A stadium locations in the United States:
  International League
  Pacific Coast League

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nashville Sounds</span> Minor League Baseball team in Nashville, Tennessee

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Buffalo Bisons</span> Minor League Baseball (AAA) team in Buffalo, New York

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sahlen Field</span> Baseball stadium in Buffalo, New York

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Memphis Redbirds</span> Minor league baseball team

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trenton Thunder Ballpark</span> Baseball stadium in Trenton, New Jersey

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Isotopes Park</span> Minor league baseball stadium

Rio Grande Credit Union Field at Isotopes Park, previously known only as Isotopes Park, is a minor league baseball stadium located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is the home field of the Albuquerque Isotopes of the Pacific Coast League, the Triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. The facility was also previously used by the baseball program of the University of New Mexico.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">AutoZone Park</span>

AutoZone Park is a Minor League Baseball stadium located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and is home to the Memphis Redbirds of the International League, the Triple-A affiliate of Major League Baseball's (MLB) St. Louis Cardinals. It also hosts Memphis 901 FC of the USL Championship, the second tier of U.S. soccer. In 2009, the stadium was named Minor League Ballpark of the Year by Baseball America.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">PNC Park</span> Baseball stadium in Pittsburgh, PA, USA

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Seals Stadium</span> Minor league baseball stadium in San Francisco (1931–1959)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Cheney Stadium</span> Multipurpose stadium in Tacoma, Washington

Cheney Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Tacoma, Washington, United States. It is primarily used for baseball and is home to the Tacoma Rainiers of the minor league Pacific Coast League. The stadium also hosted professional soccer teams, including the Tacoma Defiance of the USL Championship until 2022 and OL Reign of the National Women's Soccer League until 2021. Cheney Stadium opened in 1960 and has a capacity of 6,500 seats. It is next to Henry Foss High School, and the stadium has an agreement with the school to use the school parking lot for parking.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">NBT Bank Stadium</span> Baseball stadium in Syracuse, New York

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Victory Field</span> Baseball stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.

Victory Field is a minor league ballpark in downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. It is home to the Indianapolis Indians of the International League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Innovative Field</span> Baseball stadium in Rochester, New York

Innovative Field is a baseball stadium located at One Morrie Silver Way in downtown Rochester, New York. It has been the home of the Rochester Red Wings of the International League since 1997. The park opened in 1996, replacing Silver Stadium in northern Rochester, which had been home to professional baseball in Rochester since 1929. Although the stadium was built for baseball, Innovative Field has had several tenants in numerous sports, including the Rochester Raging Rhinos of the United Soccer Leagues from 1996 to 2005, and the Rochester Rattlers of Major League Lacrosse from 2001 to 2002. The ballpark seats 10,840 spectators for baseball.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">PNC Field</span> Baseball stadium in northeastern Pennsylvania

PNC Field is a 10,000-seat minor league baseball stadium that is located in Moosic, Pennsylvania in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area that was built in 1989 and rebuilt in 2013. The stadium is home to the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders, the Triple-A affiliate of the New York Yankees.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Smith's Ballpark</span> Minor League Baseball Stadium in Salt Lake City

Smith's Ballpark is a minor league baseball park in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the home field of the Salt Lake Bees of the Pacific Coast League and the collegiate Utah Utes of the Pac-12 Conference.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Double-A (baseball)</span> Second-highest level of competition in Minor League Baseball

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">First Horizon Park</span> Baseball stadium in Nashville, USA, opened 2015

First Horizon Park, formerly known as First Tennessee Park, is a baseball park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States. The home of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds of the International League, it opened on April 17, 2015, and can seat up to 10,000 people. It replaced the Sounds' former home, Herschel Greer Stadium, where the team played from its founding in 1978 through 2014.

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