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Arizona Complex League Rangers

rookie level minor league baseball team in Surprise, Arizona

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 31, 2026
Entity authorityQ4791339 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Arizona Complex League Rangers are a Rookie-level affiliate of the Texas Rangers, competing in the Arizona Complex League of Minor League Baseball. The team plays its home games at Surprise Stadium in Surprise, Arizona. The team is composed mainly of players who are in their first year of professional baseball either as draftees or non-drafted free agents.

History

The team began play in 2003 in the Arizona League (AZL), succeeding the Texas Rangers' previous rookie team, the Gulf Coast League Rangers based in Florida. The team has won two league championships, in 2010 and 2019.

Before the 2021 season, the Arizona League was renamed the Arizona Complex League (ACL).

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This entry incorporates text from “Arizona Complex League Rangers” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.