Professional sports teams in Arizona Professional sports teams in Arizona Arizona has four Major League sports teams, all within the Phoenix metropolitan area, plus a professional WNBA team. The Arizona Diamondbacks are a professional baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. They play their home games at Chase Field. They were founded in 1998 as an expansion team in the National League's West Division of the MLB. They became the fastest expansion team to win a World Series title (four seasons) when they beat three-time defending champ the New York Yankees in 2001. The Phoenix Suns play in the NBA's Pacific Division and are the only
Independent baseball league both teams have frequently worked together to promote baseball in the Upper Midwest. A new independent league, the Southwest League of Professional Baseball, was announced in February 2016 to begin play in 2018. The league will initially consist of six teams in Texas and Missouri. In mid 2017, they announced that they were postponing the league's open until 2019. Independent baseball league An independent baseball league is a professional baseball organization located in the United States and Canada that is not operated in conjunction with either a Major League Baseball team or an affiliated Minor League Baseball team. Being independent