Lakeland Flying Tigers

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Lakeland Flying Tigers
Founded in 1960
Lakeland, Florida
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Team logo Cap insignia
Class-level
Current Advanced-A (1990–present)
Previous Class A (1962-1989)
Class D (1960)
Minor league affiliations
League Florida State League (1960–present)
Division North Division
Major league affiliations
Current Detroit Tigers (1963–present)
Previous San Francisco Giants (1962) Cleveland Indians (1960)
Minor league titles
League titles (4)
  • 1976
  • 1977
  • 1992
  • 2012
Team data
Nickname Lakeland Flying Tigers (2007–present)
Previous names
 Lakeland Tigers (1963–2006)

Lakeland Giants (1962)

Lakeland Indians (1960)
Ballpark Joker Marchant Stadium (1966–2001, 2003–present)
Previous parks
 Henley Field Ball Park (1960, 1962–1965, 2002)
Owner(s)/
Operator(s)
 Detroit Tigers, Inc.
Manager Dave Huppert
General Manager Zach Burek

The Lakeland Flying Tigers are a minor league baseball team based in Lakeland, Florida.

Home games are played at Joker Marchant Stadium; opened in 1966 and renovated in 2003. The park, which also doubles as the Detroit Tigers spring training home, seats 8,500 fans. Renovations are set to be started in 2017. It plays in the Florida State League and has been the High-A affiliate of the Tigers since 1963, one of the two longest unbroken affiliate relationships currently existing.[1] Until November 2006, the team was known as the Lakeland Tigers, with branding similar to the parent club. However the team originated in 1960 as the Lakeland Indians, an affiliate of the Cleveland Indians. After a one-year hiatus, the team was restarted in 1962 as the Lakeland Giants, and an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants.

In 2012, the Flying Tigers won their first FSL title in twenty years by defeating the Jupiter Hammerheads, three games to two. It was the fourth league title in club history.[2]

Team name

The team's new name and colors pay homage to the Lakeland School of Aeronautics, later the Lodwick School of Aeronautics, which trained over 8,000 pilots between 1940 and 1945, some of whom later flew with the Flying Tigers in China during World War II.[3] The school was actually located at the current site of Joker Marchant Stadium.[4]

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Gabe Kapler

Notable former ballplayers

Current roster

Lakeland Flying Tigers roster
Players Coaches/Other

Pitchers

  • 45 Endrys Briceno
  • 18 Will Clinard
  • 29 Julio Felix
  •  9 Tyler Ford
  • 31 Logan Longwith
  • –– Zac Reininger
  • 26 Scott Sitz
  • 17 Brennan Smith
  • 27 Gage Smith
  • 44 Locke St. John
  • 37 Trent Szkutnik
  • 60 Adenson Verastegui
  • 15 Kevin Ziomek

Catchers

Infielders

  • 13 Tyler Hanover
  • 35 Brett Pirtle
  • 10 Curt Powell
  • 12 Jared Reaves

Outfielders

  • 14 Raph Rhymes
  •  1 Ismael Salgado
  • 35 Austin Schotts 10px
  • 32 Ben Verlander

Manager

Coaches


10px 7-day disabled list
* On Detroit Tigers 40-man roster
# Rehab assignment
∞ Reserve list
‡ Restricted list
§ Suspended list
† Temporary inactive list
Roster updated December 3, 2015
Transactions
→ More MiLB rosters
→ Detroit Tigers minor league players

References

  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ http://www.theledger.com/article/20120912/NEWS/120919715/1002/sports?Title=Flying-Tigers-Scrape-Two-Runs-Across-in-The-Eight-to-Win-FSL-Championship-Series
  3. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  4. ↑ [1] Archived February 25, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

External links


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