Oklahoma City Dodgers
- Location: Oklahoma City, OK
- League: Pacific Coast League 2015-2019; Triple-A West 2021; Pacific Coast League 2022-2023
- Affiliation: Los Angeles Dodgers 2015-2023
- Ballpark: Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark 2015-2023
Team History[edit]
The Oklahoma City Dodgers, of the Pacific Coast League and briefly in Triple-A West, ended a 1962-2014 run of always being a Houston Astros' or Texas Rangers' affiliate - by being purchased by a group of Los Angeles Dodgers minority owners. The Dodgers farmhands play their home games at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, OK.
The Dodger-aligned group's 2014 post-season purchase also brought the ingenious OkLAhoma logo. The Astros were thus stripped of their top farm team, which they had themselves considered buying less than two years before in order to move it to a Houston suburb. [1]
Six days after Endeavor Group Holdings acquired nine minor-league teams in late 2021 and put them under its newly created Diamond Baseball Holdings subsidiary,[2] the OKC Dodgers became the 10th acquisition.[3] Endeavor, which was created in a merger of two talent agencies, also owns Ultimate Fighting Championship and Miss Universe. However, after the MLB Players Association threatened to block Endeavor talent agents from representing professional baseball players on the grounds that a talent agency owning baseball teams is a conflict of interest, Endeavor sold DBH to the equity firm Silver Lake Partners - a major investor in Endeavor.
The Dodgers play Copa de la Diversión Hispanic engagement campaign series as Cielo Azul de Oklahoma City (Oklahoma City Blue Sky).
In December of 2023 the team announced that they would be rebranding. The team would be called the Oklahoma City Baseball Club in 2024 before unveiling a new permanant identity for 2025 [4].
Year-by-Year Record[edit]
Year | Record | Finish | Manager | Playoffs | Hitting coach | Pitching coach | Coach |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2015 | 86-58 | 1st | Damon Berryhill | Lost in 1st round | Franklin Stubbs | Scott Radinsky | Johnny Washington |
2016 | 81-60 | 2nd | Bill Haselman | Lost League Finals | Shawn Wooten | Matt Herges | Luis Matos |
2017 | 72-69 | 6th | Bill Haselman | Shawn Wooten | Matt Herges | Luis Matos | |
2018 | 75-65 | 4th | Bill Haselman | Lost in 1st round | Adam Melhuse | Bill Simas | Luis Matos, Ryan Dennick |
2019 | 62-77 | 12th | Travis Barbary | Scott Coolbaugh | Bill Simas | Jeremy Rodriguez | |
2020 | Season cancelled | ||||||
2021 | 61-58 | 5th (t) | Travis Barbary | 6-4 | Emmanuel Burriss | Jamey Wright | Bill Haselman, Justin De Fratus |
2022 | 84-66 | 3rd | Travis Barbary | Emmanuel Burriss | Dave Borkowski | Juan Apodaca, Justin De Fratus | |
2023 | 90-58 | 1st | Travis Barbary | League Champs | Emmanuel Burriss | Doug Mathis, Justin De Fratus | Chris Gutierrez, Paul Fournier |
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