The Everett AquaSox are a Minor League Baseball team in

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. The team is a member of the

Northwest League The Northwest League is a Minor League Baseball league that operates in the Northwestern United States and Western Canada. A Class A Short Season league for most of its history, the league was promoted to High-A as part of Major League Basebal ...

and is affiliated with the

Seattle Mariners The Seattle Mariners are an American professional baseball team based in Seattle. They compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL) West division. The team joined the American League as an expansion ...

. The AquaSox play their home games at Funko Field, which has a

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of 3,682. Everett has won three division titles and one Northwest League championship.

History

Following the 1983 season, Bob and Margaret Bavasi purchased the struggling

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, based

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. Antiquated facilities compounded by dwindling attendance in Walla Walla prompted the new owners to move the franchise. The Bavasis, who had secured affiliation with the

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, ultimately selected Everett as the relocation destination. Playing as the

Everett Giants The Everett Giants were a minor league baseball team based in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle. The Giants were members of the Class A-Short Season Northwest League from 1984 through 1994 and were an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. ...

, the club was affiliated with San Francisco for eleven years until 1994. After the 1994 season, Everett signed a player development contract with the

as their

Class A Short Season Class A Short Season (officially Short-Season A) was a level of play in Minor League Baseball in the United States from 1965 through 2020. In the hierarchy of minor league classifications, it was below Triple-A, Double-A, Class A-Advanced (cre ...

affiliate and adopted a new unique name, the AquaSox. Since the 2021 season, the team has played at the

High-A High-A (officially Class High-A, formerly known as Class A-Advanced, and sometimes abbreviated "A+" in writing) is the third-highest level of play in Minor League Baseball in the United States and Canada, below Triple-A and Double-A, and abov ...

classification as a Mariners affiliate.

Identity

One of the team logos, used on road caps and jerseys, is based on the "trident" insignia used by the Mariners in the early 1980s (rotated to look like the letter "E" for Everett, instead of "M" for Mariners). Their mascot is Webbly, a frog. According to long-time team radio broadcaster Pat Dillon, "The frog is a cross between a Pacific tree frog and a Central American red-eyed tree frog—and

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." Previously, the mascot for the Everett Giants was a giant hot dog named Frank.

Season-by-season record

Northwest League (1995–present)

Roster

References

External links

* {{Washington Sports San Francisco Giants minor league affiliates Seattle Mariners minor league affiliates Northwest League teams Baseball teams established in 1995 1995 establishments in Washington (state) Professional baseball teams in Washington (state) Sports in Everett, Washington High-A West teams