The Canada Miners (also known as the Western Canada Miners ) are a professional independent baseball team based in Yuma, Arizona, and representing western Canada. They play in the developmental Arizona Winter League, a short-season instructional winter league affiliated with the Golden Baseball League and they play their home games at Desert Sun Stadium in Yuma, as well as the San Diego Surf Dawgs, Saskatchewan Silver Sox, Team Canada and Yuma Scorpions. The team uses the logo and uniforms of the GBL's inactive Mesa Miners [1] [2] team and are managed by Brooks Carey. On April 3, 2009, the Miners were announced as one of the three charter teams in the new Arizona Summer League, an instructional league also affiliated with the GBL. The league was formed following the success of the AWL. In July 2009, after 14 games and no playoff, they were declared the very first ASL Champions. The GBL still owns the rights to the "Miners" brand (including name, logo and uniforms) and a future GBL expansion team would have no ties to the original Mesa team. Some suggest that previously sought-after Canadian cities Kamloops and Kelowna should be the new home of the brand because of western Canada's rich mining history, similar to the Saskatchewan team (Regina or Saskatoon are being sought to host the Silver Sox if they continue to express interest).

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Season-by-season records

See also

• Mesa Miners

References

1. It's official: Baseball here in January (The Yuma Sun, November 15, 2006)
2. Attractions aplenty at AWL opener: Scorpions fall to Miners in first game of winter league (The Yuma Sun, February 1, 2008)