Albuquerque Isotopes

The Albuquerque Isotopes are a Minor League Baseball team from Albuquerque, New Mexico. They play baseball at the Triple-A (AAA) level, the most difficult level before Major League Baseball, against other baseball teams in the Pacific Coast League (a group of 10 baseball teams at the same level). The Isotopes are partnered with the Colorado Rockies, a Major League Baseball team. When a player shows that he plays well at this level, he may be moved up to play for the Rockies.

The team is called Isotopes for two reasons. New Mexico has a number of well-known scientific and military facilities dealing with nuclear technology, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory, as well as the site of the Trinity test. It is also a reference to a fictional baseball team in an episode of the The Simpsons. 

The Isotpes have played at a stadium called Rio Grande Credit Union Field at Isotopes Park since 2003.

References

Other websites

 The team's website
 The team's statistics from Baseball-Reference

Category:Baseball teams in the United States
Category:Colorado Rockies