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The Lansing Lugnuts
are a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays, that plays in the Midwest League.
The Midwest League came to Lansing, Michigan in 1996. The franchise began in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1955; after two seasons it moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where it stayed for 36 seasons. Before the 1994 season it moved to Springfield, Illinois, but only spent two seasons there before moving to Lansing. The franchise was an affiliate of the Kansas City Royals on two separate occasions in three different cities: as the Waterloo Royals from 1969 through 1976, as the Sultans of Springfield in 1995, and then, upon the team's move to Lansing, from 1996 through 1998. The Lugnuts were then an affiliate of the Chicago Cubs from 1999 through 2004 before joining the Jays' farm system for the 2005 season.
The team plays at Oldsmobile Park (named after the now-defunct General Motors division that was based there), which opened in 1996. Oldsmobile Park seats over 11,000 fans and is one of the largest Class A Minor League baseball parks in the United States. The franchise national attendance record of 538,326 was set during its inaugural year. They won the Midwest League Championship in 1997 and 2003. The Lugnuts have their own "theme" which plays immediately after the national anthem for every home game.
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Alumni
The following are players currently in Major League Baseball who played, at one time, for the Lugnuts. This partial list includes players making injury-comeback starts as well as those that developed in Lansing.
- Jeremy Affeldt
- Carlos Beltran
- Francis Beltran
- Juan Brito
- Kiko Calero
- Lance Carter
- Ronny Cedeno
- Rocky Cherry
- Hee Seop Choi
- Juan Cruz
- Ryan Dempster
- Chad Durbin
- Carlos Febles
- Jeremy Giambi
- Angel Guzman
- Rich Hill
- Casey Janssen
- Jon Leicester
- Sergio Mitre
- Orber Moreno
- Corey Patterson
- Billy Petrick
- Felix Pie
- Renyel Pinto
- Mark Prior
- Clay Rapada
- José Santiago
- Travis Snider
- Andy Sisco
- Ryan Theriot
- Curtis Thigpen
- Matt Treanor
- Todd Wellemeyer
- Carlos Zambrano
Roster
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Pitchers
- 29 Michael Barbara
- 14 Robert Bell
- 23 Ross Buckwalter
- 10 Tim Collins
- 22 Edgar Estanga
- 25 Alan Farina
- 6 Daniel Farquhar
- 16 Frank Gailey
- 36 Ryan Koch
- 40 Brian Letko
- 45 Trystan Magnuson
- 27 Luis Perez
- 39 Marc Rzepczynski
- 30 Joe Wice
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- 18 C.J. Ebarb
- 19 Jonathan Jaspe
- 44 Jonathan Talley
Infielders
- 7 Kevin Ahrens
- -- Jason Armstrong
- 4 Raul Barron
- 2 Justin Jackson
- 31 Manuel Rodriguez
- 5 John Tolisano
Outfielders
- 26 Jonathan Baksh
- 21 Johermyn Chavez
- 13 Eric Eiland
- 11 Darin Mastroianni
- 24 Moises Sierra
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Coaches
- -- Justin Mashore (hitting)
- -- (pitching)
† Disabled list
* On Toronto Blue Jays 40-man roster
‡ Reserve list
§ Suspended list
updated 2008-10-22
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