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Due to new requirements from Major League Baseball, the Everett AquaSox, the city's minor league baseball team, will need an updated or new stadium facility. The City of Everett is currently exploring the feasibility of different options that will ensure the AquaSox remain part of the community for generations to come.
Keep AquaSox in Everett with a downtown ballpark
Minor League Baseball’s future in Everett faces three options: Refurbish the current stadium — Funko Field — on Everett School District property; build a new field and stadium downtown across from the Angel of the Winds Arena; or watch another city provide a new home, spurring the departure from the city of the AquaSox, the Seattle Mariners’ High-A affiliate.
The first two options offer their own advantages and disadvantages; the third means the loss of a 40-year history of Minor League Baseball — and its roster of former and current big league players and stars — thrown out at its home plate in Everett.
Everett committee finds downtown AquaSox stadium more viable
After nearly a year of meetings, Everett’s Stadium Fiscal Advisory Committee released its final report Wednesday, detailing ways the city could find money to build or renovate a stadium for the AquaSox.
‘Small ball’ by council can advance Everett stadium
If there’s no crying in baseball, there’s even less certainty in baseball’s outcomes, at least until the final out.
But what seems certain now, following a nearly year-long process by a City of Everett fiscal advisory committee, is that the best chance to continue the 40-year legacy of the Everett AquaSox Minor League Baseball club here is to move forward with plans to build a new stadium downtown, funding construction — in stages if necessary — with a combination of private and public funds,