Sugar Land Space Cowboys
The Sugar Land Space Cowboys are a Minor League Baseball team of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and the Triple-A affiliate of the Houston Astros Major League Baseball club. They are located in Sugar Land, Texas, part of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, and play their home games at Constellation Field.
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| Class | Triple-A (2021–present) | ||||
| Previous classes | Independent (2012–2020) | ||||
| League | Pacific Coast League (2022–present) | ||||
| Division | East Division | ||||
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| Team | Houston Astros (2021–present) | ||||
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| League titles (3) |
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| Division titles (4) |
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| First-half titles (4) |
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| Second-half titles (3) |
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| Name | Sugar Land Space Cowboys (2022–present) | ||||
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| Colors | Navy blue, light blue, orange, black, gray, white | ||||
| Mascot | Orion | ||||
| Ballpark | Constellation Field (2012–present) | ||||
Owner(s)/ Operator(s) | Houston Astros | ||||
| General manager | Tyler Stamm | ||||
| Manager | Mickey Storey | ||||
The team began play as the Sugar Land Skeeters in 2012 as an expansion team of the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball (ALPB), an independent baseball league. Their name was a Southern slang word for mosquitos, which are common on summer nights in Southeast Texas. Over eight seasons, they won two league championships (2016 and 2018). In 2020, the Skeeters competed in the Constellation Energy League, a makeshift league they hosted in light of the Atlantic League's cancelled season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In conjunction with Major League Baseball's reorganization of the minors after the 2020 season, the Houston Astros purchased an ownership stake in the team and made them their Triple-A affiliate in the Triple-A West, which was renamed the PCL in 2022. Also for 2022, the team rebranded as the Space Cowboys.