Phoenix Firebirdsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

The Phoenix Firebirds were the minor league baseball team of Phoenix, Arizona, until 1997 when the Arizona Diamondbacks expansion franchise was awarded to Phoenix by Major League Baseball with a start date of 1998. The Phoenix Firebirds PCL team, at the time the Giants' Triple-A affiliate, was forced to relocate. In a complicated series of events, the owners of the Firebirds moved their team to Tucson and became the Tucson Sidewinders, dropping their affiliation with the Giants in favor of the expansion Diamondbacks. The owners of the existing Tucson Toros then moved their franchise to Fresno, thus ending a 92-year hiatus of PCL baseball in Fresno. The transplanted Toros, renamed the Grizzlies, became the Giants' new PCL affiliate.