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Florida Complex League Pirates
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The Florida Complex League Pirates are a Rookie-level affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, competing in the Florida Complex League of Minor League Baseball. Prior to 2021, the team was known as the Gulf Coast League Pirates. The team plays its home games in Bradenton, Florida, at the Pirate City complex. The team is composed mainly of players who are in their first year of professional baseball either as draftees or non-drafted free agents from the United States, Canada, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, and other countries.

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The team was first established in 1968, and has competed continuously since then. The team won division championships in 2002, 2003, 2008, and 2013. In 2012, the team won its first league championship.[1]

In 2009, the team had nine players each from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, with the United States third at six players. They were the two highly publicized, pioneering Indian pitchers, Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel, who became the first Indian-born players to sign professional baseball contracts in the United States,[2] a second baseman named Henry from Colombia, two players from Puerto Rico, and one each from Mexico, Panama, Australia, Canada and one of the first three players ever signed out of South Africa, Gift Ngoepe, while one of the Americans, Chris Aure, was from Alaska. "We eat together in the cafeteria, but sometimes we try each other's foods," Ngoepe says. "I listen to the Indians' music when I go past their rooms, and they listen to my music from Africa. We tell each other stories about our home countries. We do everything together." "Everybody's the same here, like family," Venezuelan infielder Elevys Gonzalez says.[3]

For the 2021 season, the team is fielding two squads in the league, differentiated as "Black" and "Gold" in reference to the team's colors.

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Season-by-season

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Pitchers

  • 36 Gavin Adams
  • 37 Cesar Aquino
  • -- Brandon Cain ∞
  • 71 Angel Camacho
  •  7 Jackson Grounds
  • -- Seth Hernandez ∞
  • 63 Ronaldys Jimenez
  • 47 Tyler Kennedy
  • -- Cameron Keshock ∞
  • 51 Carlos Mateo
  • 50 Bladimir Pichardo
  • 48 Yulian Quintana
  • 56 Irwin Ramirez
  • 57 Jose Regalado
  • 31 Pitterson Rosa
  • 34 Levi Sterling
  • -- Draven Ziegler ∞

Catchers

  • 25 Samuel Escudero
  • -- Adonys Guzman ∞
  • 24 Jonathan Rivero

Infielders

  • 13 Roinny Aguiar
  • 88 Carlos Caro
  • 10 Kendrick Herrera
  • -- Gustavo Melendez ∞
  • 75 Michell Ojeda
  • -- Dylan Palmer ∞
  • 14 Eddie Rynders
  • 16 Carlos Tirado

Outfielders

  • 26 Bralyn Brazoban
  • 27 Carl Calixte
  • -- Tres Gonzalez
  • 15 Cristian Jauregui
  • -- Eddie King Jr. ∞
  • 30 Raymond Mola
  •  6 Eduardo Oviedo
  • -- Canon Reeder ∞
  • 12 Estuar Suero
  • -- Josh Tate ∞


Manager

  • 46 Jose Mendez

Coaches

  • 85 Brady Conlan (hitting)
  • 61 Mick Fieldbinder (pitching)
  • 38 Fernando Nieve (pitching)

60-day injured list

  • 35 Ronaldo Gallo (full season)
  • 55 Dioris Martinez
  • -- Rubens Romero (full season)
  • -- Andres Silvera
  • 65 Joaquin Tejada (full season)

7-day injured list
* On Pittsburgh Pirates 40-man roster
~ Development list
# Rehab assignment
∞ Reserve list
‡ Restricted list
§ Suspended list
† Temporarily inactive list
Roster updated July 24, 2025
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