Lansing Lugnuts

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The Lansing Lugnuts are a Class A minor league baseball team, affiliated with the Toronto Blue Jays, that plays in the Midwest League.

The Midwest League came to Lansing in 1996. The franchise began in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1955; after two seasons it moved to Waterloo, Iowa, where it stayed for 36 seasons. Before the 1994 season it moved to Springfield, Illinois, but it only spent two seasons there before moving to Lansing. The Lugnuts were affiliates of the Kansas City Royals from 1996 through 1998 and the Chicago Cubs from 1999 through 2004 before joining the Jays' farm system for the 2005 season.

The team plays at Oldsmobile Park (named after the now-defunct General Motors division that was based there), which opened in 1996. Oldsmobile Park seats over 11,000 fans and is one of the largest Class A Minor League baseball parks in the United States. The franchise national attendance record of 538,326 was set during its inaugural year. They won the Midwest League Championship in 1997 and 2003.

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Alumni

The following are players currently in Major League Baseball who played, at one time, for the Lugnuts. This list includes players making injury-comeback starts as well as those that developed in Lansing.