Eugene Emeralds
- Location: Eugene, OR
- League: Northwest League 1955-1968; Pacific Coast League 1969-1973; Northwest League 1974-2019; High-A West 2021; Northwest League 2022-
- Affiliation: Portland Beavers 1956; Sacramento Solons 1957; San Francisco Giants 1959-1962; Chicago White Sox 1963; Philadelphia Phillies 1964-1965; Philadelphia Phillies & St. Louis Cardinals 1966; Philadelphia Phillies 1967-1973; Co-op 1974; Cincinnati Reds 1975-1983; Kansas City Royals 1984-1994; Atlanta Braves 1995-1998; San Diego Padres 2001-2014; Chicago Cubs 1999-2000, 2015-2019; San Francisco Giants 2021-Present
- Ballpark: Bethel Park 1955-1968; Civic Stadium 1969-2009; PK Park 2010-present
Team History[edit]
The Eugene Emeralds, of the High-A Northwest League and briefly in High-A West, had the NwL's worst overall record in 2018 but made the playoffs due to having the second-best record in the South division in the second half - and won out for the crown! The San Francisco Giants farmhands play their home games at PK Park in Eugene, OR.
MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization raised the Ems, and most of the NwL, two levels and moved them from the Chicago Cubs to the Giants.
Early editions of the Ems played at Bethel Park, but the expansion of 1969 that begat the Seattle Pilots bumped the Pacific Coast League's Seattle Angels team to Eugene, where they moved into Civic Stadium. The NwL returned in 1974, again choosing Civic.
A better stadium situation presented itself in 2009, when the University of Oregon opened a new one to resume its varsity baseball program, and the Ems became its secondary tenant in the 2010 season. Such sharing is easy between collegiate and professional short-season teams, but that ended when MLB's reorganization elevated the Ems and most their league to High-A. As a result, the Ems are working on building a new stadium of their own.
Civic Stadium fell victim to arson in June 2015. On the very August night that the Emeralds commemorated it, four Ems pitchers hurled a combined no-hitter.
The Ems play Copa de la Diversión Hispanic engagement campaign games as Monarcas de Eugene (Eugene Monarchs, which can either refer to emperors or to monarch butterflies).
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