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Stockton Ports
For the physical deepwater shipping port in Stockton, see Port of Stockton.

The Stockton Ports are a Minor League Baseball team of the California League and the Single-A affiliate of the Athletics. They are located in Stockton, California, and are named for the city's seaport. The team plays its home games at Banner Island Ballpark which opened in 2005 and seats over 5,000 people.

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Stockton Ports
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Minor league affiliations
ClassSingle-A (2021–present)
Previous classesClass A-Advanced (1978–2020)
LeagueCalifornia League (1941–present)
DivisionNorth Division
Major league affiliations
TeamOakland Athletics / Athletics (2005–present)
Previous teams
Minor league titles
League titles (11)
  • 1946
  • 1947
  • 1963
  • 1965
  • 1969
  • 1980
  • 1986
  • 1990
  • 1992
  • 2002
  • 2008
Team data
NameStockton Ports (1946–1972, 1978–1999, 2002–present)
Previous names
  • Mudville Nine (2000–2001)
  • Stockton Mariners (1978)
  • Stockton Flyers (1941–1942)
ColorsRed, white, blue
     
MascotSplash
BallparkBanner Island Ballpark (2005–present)
Previous parks
Billy Hebert Field (1941–2004)
Owner(s)/
Operator(s)
Tom Volpe / 7th Inning Stretch, LLC
General managerJordan Feneck
ManagerJavier Godard
MediaKWSX 1280 AM – MiLB.TV (currently select away games only)
Websitemilb.com/stockton
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The Ports were established in 1941 as members of the California League and have won the California League championship 11 times.

History

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Baseball first came to Stockton in the 1860s. At the time, Stockton fielded a team in an earlier incarnation of the California League. In 1888, the Stockton team won the California League pennant with a record of 41–12. That same team also gained a bit of notoriety as a possible inspiration for "Casey at the Bat", a famous baseball poem by Ernest Thayer. Thayer was a journalist for the San Francisco Examiner at the time and the games were hosted in a ballpark on Banner Island, a place once known as Mudville.

The Stockton Flyers were established as a charter member of the California League in 1941. The league suspended operations in June 1942 due to World War II. The Flyers were rechristened as the Stockton Ports to recognize Stockton's status as an inland port city when the league resumed operations in 1946. That season, the Ports went on to win their first California League pennant.

In 1947, the Ports won the California League title again without a major league affiliation (they had a limited working agreement with the Pacific Coast League's Oakland Oaks). After going 24–18 through June 4, they went on a 26-game winning streak and took first place, never to relinquish again in that season. The win streak is one of the longest in professional baseball and is still a California League record. The Ports finished that season with a record of 95–45 and 16 games ahead of the two teams tied for second place. During Minor League Baseball's centennial celebration in 2001, baseball historians Bill Weiss and Marshall Wright rated the 1947 Ports as one of the 100 greatest minor league teams of all time, ranked at number 98.[1]

Owned by Stockton local Carl W. Thompson, Sr. (1971–1973), the Ports disbanded after the 1972 season, coming back as an affiliate of the Seattle Mariners in 1978. The Ports began a long affiliation with the Milwaukee Brewers the following year. The Ports had the best winning percentage in Minor League Baseball in the 1980s.[2] In an homage to the team in the Ernest Thayer poem, the Ports were renamed the Mudville Nine in 2000 and 2001,[3][4] then returned to the Ports name in 2002.

In 2005, the Ports moved to the newly built Banner Island Ballpark and became affiliates of the Oakland Athletics. The team won its 11th California League championship in 2008 with a 9–3 victory over the Lancaster JetHawks on September 14.

In conjunction with Major League Baseball's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Ports were organized into the Low-A West at the Low-A classification.[5] In 2022, the Low-A West became known as the California League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to 2021, and was reclassified as a Single-A league.[6]

Major league affiliations

Roster

Stockton Ports roster
Players Coaches/Other

Pitchers

  • 29 Wilfred Alvarado
  • 22 Luke Anderson
  • 21 Nathan Dettmer
  • 23 Jose Dicochea
  • 12 Blake Hammond
  • 18 Riley Huge
  • 17 Jefferson Jean
  • 38 Aidan Layton
  • 44 Wei-En Lin
  • 26 Ryan Magdic
  • 15 Alejandro Manzano
  • 33 Tucker Novotny
  • 40 Brayan Restituyo
  • 37 Tzu-Chen Sha
  • 27 Sam Stuhr
  • 46 Donny Troconis

Catchers

  •  5 Davis Diaz
  • 10 Carlos Franco
  •  3 Thomas Takayoshi

Infielders

  • 16 Ali Camarillo
  •  8 Gunner Gouldsmith
  •  1 Myles Naylor
  • 14 German Ortiz
  •  7 C.J. Pittaro
  •  9 Jared Sprague-Lott

Outfielders

  •  2 Cesar Franco
  •  4 Cameron Leary
  •  6 Pedro Pineda
  • 11 Joseph Rodriguez

Manager

  • 19 Javier Godard

Coaches

60-day injured list

  • -- Ryan Brown (full season)
  • 14 Jackson Finley

7-day injured list
* On Athletics 40-man roster
~ Development list
# Rehab assignment
∞ Reserve list
‡ Restricted list
§ Suspended list
† Temporarily inactive list
Roster updated April 18, 2025
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Notable Ports alumni

Baseball Hall of Fame alumni
Notable alumni

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