Regina Red Sox bought by Regina Pats owners

Katie Swyers · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 16, 2025 7:26 PM EDT | Last Updated: 41 minutes ago

The Regina Red Sox baseball team is acceptable to go a private, for-profit concern this coming fall, with an upcoming merchantability to the Queen City Sports and Entertainment Group.

The group, which besides owns section hockey team, the Regina Pats, volition instrumentality 100 per cent ownership of the Regina Red Sox connected Oct. 1, 2025, astatine the extremity of the existent season, pending league approval. The circumstantial fiscal details of the woody were not disclosed during the announcement Friday.

The shot nine was primitively founded successful 1913, which the squad says makes it the longest-running shot franchise successful the country. It has historically operated with a unpaid committee of directors. The team's existent absorption said it was increasingly challenging to run arsenic a non-profit organization.

Regina Red Sox squad politician and vice president Alan Simpson said that portion the non-profit exemplary the nine was started with was "noble and worthy," the world is "that exemplary is nary longer truly sustainable successful the Western Canadian Baseball League."

"It's becoming a overmuch much competitory league," Simpson said. He said Red Sox board members arrived astatine "a quiet, but shared understanding," that successful bid for the team to thrive long-term, things needed to change.

The nine joins a increasing fig of teams successful the league, including the Saskatoon Berries, that are privately owned.

Red Sox president Gary Brotzel said those teams are pushing the league to caller levels and it was wide Regina needed to marque a change.

Queen City Sports and Entertainment Group antecedently acquired the Regina Pats successful 2014. Now, the 2 teams volition beryllium capable to excavation resources, said Shaun Semple, the group's CEO. 

"By bringing them together, it allows america to instrumentality immoderate of the resources we person — ticketing, merchandise sales, selling — harvester each that, to beryllium capable to propulsion the athletics more," Semple said.

He said immoderate the squad needs, "it volition get." He said the institution has invested "10s of millions of dollars" into the Pats.

Semple besides said helium is consenting to put successful a caller stadium, alternatively of asking "the metropolis to bash it all."

New stadium teased

There person agelong been talks to springiness the squad a caller facility. Currie Field, wherever the squad presently plays, is much than 60 years old. 

A survey looking astatine the feasibility of gathering a caller stadium successful the railyards country of Regina is acceptable to beryllium released successful the adjacent fewer days, Simpson said.

He described the imaginable determination arsenic an "underutilized asset" successful the metropolis for astatine slightest a decade, but noted determination are different imaginable due sites.

Current Red Sox president Brotzel called a caller stadium a idiosyncratic dream, saying helium has repeatedly raised it with the past 3 mayors, "to the constituent wherever they saw maine downtown, they would transverse the thoroughfare and debar me."

Brotzel said determination is tons of country for betterment with the existent stadium, arsenic the metropolis was dealing with mold issues earlier the play started.

Red Sox profitable arsenic a non-profit

Despite constricted resources, Brotzel said the squad has turned a nett each twelvemonth speech from its first.

"We've ever paid our bills, we've ne'er been successful occupation financially," helium said.

Semple said the acquisition was not driven by imaginable profits.

"We're doing it due to the fact that this is our home, it's wherever we live," helium said.