Texas Winter League

Texas Winter League

Infobox sports league
logo =
pixels = 200px
caption = Texas Winter League logo
sport = Baseball
founded = 2006
motto =
teams = 4
country = USA
champion = Brownsville Toros
folded =
website = [http://www.texaswinterleague.com www.texaswinterleague.com] The Texas Winter League is the winter professional baseball league of the United League. Announced on October 25, 2006, and headquartered in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, it is an independent baseball league. The Winter League plays in Harlingen, Texas with teams based in the lower Rio Grande Valley: Brownsville, Edinburg, Harlingen, and Laredo. Like the regular United League, the Winter League operates with cities not served by Major or Minor League Baseball teams and is not affiliated with either. The Texas Winter League offers unsigned or undrafted high school and college players, as well as some players from the ULB, a chance for extended play. The league uses the designated hitter, and began play on January 19, 2007.

League format

The Texas Winter League, operationally based out of Edinburg, Texas, features four teams playing a 24-game schedule from mid-January through mid-February of each year. These teams are winter counterparts to the regular United League Baseball teams, including wintertime versions of the Edinburg Coyotes, Laredo Broncos, and Rio Grande Valley WhiteWings, along with a new team, the Brownsville Toros. All games are played at Harlingen Field. Each team has a 25-player roster, and the teams play doubleheaders each day with four days off during the regular season. A best-of-three league championship series between the top two teams is played in a two-day series shortly after the close of the regular season. This league operates as a winter counterpart to the regular United League with its own identity, teams, standings, and statistics.

Winter League Teams

2007 Final Standings

"** Clinched Regular Season Title"
"^ Clinched Playoff Spot"

Playoffs

When the Texas Winter League's season ends in mid-February, the top two teams in the regular season standings make the playoffs, including the regular season champion and one wild card team. Those teams then play a best-of-three league championship over two days.

;2007 Championship
Brownsville Toros 2, Harlingen WhiteWings 0

TWL Champions

2007: Brownsville Toros

External links

* [http://www.texaswinterleague.com/ Texas Winter League]
* [http://www.unitedleague.org/ United League Baseball]


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