San Jose Giants
- Location: San Jose, CA
- League: California League 1988-2019; Low-A West 2021; California League 2022-
- Affiliation: San Francisco Giants 1988-present
- Ballpark: Excite Ballpark
Team History[edit]
The San Jose Giants, of the Single-A California League and briefly in Low-A West, play out of a city whose image and baseball landscape have both drastically changed. The San Francisco Giants farmhands play their home games at Excite Ballpark.
San Jose, CA, gained and lost a Pacific Coast League franchise in the mid-1970s, yet the Oakland Athletics spent 10 years starting in 2011 trying to move there. Now a major city in its own right, it remains in the protected territory of the Giants - who vetoed the move and then won the resulting legal fight with the A's. (Most two-team MLB markets have joint protection zones, but not the Bay Area.)
The SJ-Giants, who were mostly owned by their parent club, are among the teams Endeavor Group Holdings acquired in late 2021 and put under its newly created Diamond Baseball Holdings subsidiary.[1] 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.
MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization lowered the SJ-Giants, and most of the Cali League, one level.
The Giants play Copa de la Diversión Hispanic engagement campaign games Churros de San José (San Jose Fritters).
Year-by-Year Record[edit]
* Finals canceled with the Lake Elsinore Storm and San Jose declared co-champions.
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