The Edmonton Prospects are a dormant

collegiate summer baseball Collegiate summer baseball leagues are amateur baseball leagues in the United States and Canada featuring players who have attended at least one year of college and have at least one year of athletic eligibility remaining. Generally, they operat ...

team based in

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, Alberta, Canada. They play in the

Western Canadian Baseball League The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) is a collegiate summer baseball league based in Saskatchewan and Alberta that descends from leagues dating to 1931. History The league can trace its roots back to 1931, via its predecessors. The South ...

. The team was founded in 2005 as the Edmonton Big River Prospects but moved to the Edmonton suburb of St. Albert after only one year of use of

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with the

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of the Northern League. They took a leave of absence from the WMBL for the 2008 season before returning in 2009 under their current name. Prior to the 2012 season they played out of John Fry Park on the south side of Edmonton. In 2012 the Prospects began playing out of Telus Field, which was renamed

RE/MAX Field RE/MAX Field (formerly Edmonton Ballpark, and Telus Field) is a baseball stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It has served as home to several minor league baseball clubs; its last affiliated tenant was the Edmonton Trappers, a AAA Pacific Coast ...

in 2017. The Prospects played the 2021 season as a road team. In 2022, they played most of their home games at Centennial Park Field 9 in

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, and they plan to move to the

Myshak Metro Ballpark Myshak Metro Ballpark is under construction in Spruce Grove, Alberta, Canada. The baseball park is the home of the Edmonton Prospects, a Western Canadian Baseball League The Western Canadian Baseball League (WCBL) is a collegiate summer bas ...

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when this new park opens. Because of construction delays on the new ballpark, the team will not play in 2023.

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