Orlando Rays

The Orlando Rays were a Minor League Baseball team from Orlando, Florida, that played from 1963 to 2003.^[1] They played at a stadium called Disney's Wide World of Sports from 2000 to 2003.^[2] Before that, they played at Tinker Field from 1963 to 1999.^[3] The team was partnered with four Major League Baseball (MLB) teams: the Minnesota Twins (1963–1992), Chicago Cubs (1993–1997), Seattle Mariners (1998), and Tampa Bay Devil Rays (1999–2003).

The team began playing baseball in 1963 at the Class A level, the third-most difficult level before MLB, in the Florida State League. They were called the Orlando Twins from 1963 to 1989 because of their partnership with the Minnesota Twins. In 1973, they started playing in the Southern League at the Double-A level, the second-most difficult. They changed their name to the Orlando Sun Rays in 1990. They became the Orlando Cubs in 1993 after partnering with the Chicago Cubs. Their name was changed to the Orlando Rays in 1997.^[1]

Orlando won the Florida State League championship once (1968).^[4] They won the Southern League championship three times (1981, 1991, and 1999).^[5]

• The team's statistics from Baseball-Reference