Minneapolis River Rats

Class A baseball at Parade Stadium, Minneapolis

The Minneapolis River Rats are an amateur baseball club playing Class A in the Park National League under the Minnesota Baseball Association, at Parade Stadium in Minneapolis. They went 8-11 in 2026 under manager Aaron Clark.

Four hundred and fifty-four classification points, and the eighth Park National League club to turn up at Parade Stadium in this set. The eight are graded 440, 454, 465, 472, 473, 478, 483 and 529, which is every single one of the highest-rated clubs in Minnesota using the same ballpark beside the Walker Art Center.

Their records this summer ran from 1-15 to 20-5. Eight clubs, all within ninety classification points of each other, and a nineteen game spread between best and worst.

Whatever the classification system is measuring at the top of Class A, it stopped predicting outcomes some distance below four hundred.

River Rats is the right name for a club playing beside the Mississippi in Minneapolis, and it is the only one of the eight that refers to the city rather than to a sponsor.

The only one of the eight Parade Stadium clubs named after the city rather than a sponsor. High Cheese gives the River Rats the page where that distinction survives.