Tacoma Rainiers

• Location: Tacoma, WA
• League: Pacific Coast League 1995-2019; Triple-A West 2021; Pacific Coast League 2022-
• Affiliation: Seattle Mariners 1995-present
• Ballpark: Cheney Stadium

Team History

The Tacoma Rainiers of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League and briefly in Triple-A West, were baseball's geographically closest Triple-A/MLB partnership for decades - until MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization paired the Minnesota Twins and St. Paul Saints. The Seattle Mariners farmhands play their home games at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma, WA.

Tacoma teams have played in every PCL season since 1960, with two different franchises under various nicknames - often that of their parents, except for some runs under the locally traditional pro baseball moniker "Tigers". Tacoma teams fed a total of six parent clubs before joining the M's in 1995, when they took Seattle's longtime PCL nickname.

That nickname might logically be assumed to be for the well-known local mountains. In fact, it was first used on a Seattle baseball team after Seattle brewer Emil Sick bought the Seattle Indians and renamed them for one of his beer's brands. Sicks would later do precisely the same thing with the PCL's Vancouver Maple Leafs, buying them and renaming them Capilanos - not for the Squamish word for "beautiful river" but for his thus-named beer brand.

Making the 2010 playoffs, the Rainiers made it possible for that off-season's facelift to start on time by moving their home games to Seattle's Safeco Field - its first playoff action since 2001.

The Rainiers play Copa de la Diversión Hispanic engagement campaign games as La Familia de Tacoma (Tacoma Family).

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs	Hitting coach	Pitching	Coach
1995	68-76	6th (t)	Steve Smith		Terry Kennedy	Jeff Andrews
1996	69-73	7th	Dave Myers		Terry Kennedy	Jeff Andrews
1997	75-66	4th	Dave Myers		Henry Cotto	Jeff Andrews
1998	77-67	7th	Dave Myers		Dave Brundage	Ron Romanick
1999	69-70	8th	Dave Myers		Dave Brundage	Jim Slaton
2000	76-67	5th	Dave Myers		Dave Brundage	Jim Slaton
2001	85-59	1st	Dan Rohn	League Co-Champs	Henry Cotto	Jim Slaton & Chris Bosio
2002	65-76	13th	Dan Rohn		Orlando Gomez	Jim Slaton
2003	66-78	14th	Dan Rohn		Gary Thurman	Jim Slaton
2004	79-63	3rd	Dan Rohn		Terry Pollreisz	Rafael Chaves
2005	80-64	2nd (t)	Dan Rohn	Lost League Finals	Terry Pollreisz	Rafael Chaves
2006	74-70	7th	Dave Brundage		Terry Pollreisz	Dwight Bernard
2007	68-76	12th	Daren Brown		Terry Pollreisz	Dwight Bernard
2008	80-64	4th	Daren Brown		Alonzo Powell	Dwight Bernard
2009	74-70	6th	Daren Brown	Lost in 1st round	Alonzo Powell	Dwight Bernard
2010	74-69	7th	Daren Brown (61-54) / Jose Castro (13-15)	League Champs	Powell/Castro	Jaime Navarro
2011	70-74	8th (t)	Daren Brown		Alonzo Powell	Dwight Bernard
2012	63-81	13th	Daren Brown		Jeff Pentland	Dwight Bernard
2013	76-68	6th (t)	Daren Brown (17-10) / John Stearns (59-58)		Howard Johnson	Dwight Bernard	Scott Steinmann
2014	74-70	7th (t)	Roy Howell		Cory Snyder	Jaime Navarro
2015	68-76	11th	Pat Listach		Cory Snyder	Jaime Navarro
2016	81-62	3rd	Pat Listach	Lost in 1st round	Scott Brosius	Lance Painter
2017	66-76	13th	Pat Listach		Dave Berg	Lance Painter	Denny Hocking
2018	66-73	11th	Pat Listach		Dave Berg	Lance Painter	Alexander Capriata
2019	61-78	13th	Daren Brown		Roy Howell	Lance Painter
2020	Season cancelled
2021	73-47	1st	Kristopher Negron / Tony Arnerich (interim)	5-5 League Champs	Zac Livingston (interim), Roy Howell	Rob Marcello	Eric Young Jr.
2022	72-78	6th	Tim Federowicz		Brad Marcelino	Alon Leichman	Seth Mejias-Brean, Zach Vincej
2023			John Russell		Brad Marcelino	Jairo Cuevas	Ty Kelly

Further Reading

• Jim Price: "You want stars, titles, nicknames? Tacoma's got 'em", in Mark Armour, ed.: Rain Check: Baseball in the Pacific Northwest, Society for American Baseball Research, Cleveland, OH, 2006, pp. 76-81.

Related Sites

• TacomaRainiers.com