The Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp

The Jumbo Shrimp are Jacksonville's Triple-A baseball club, playing in the East division of the International League as the top minor league affiliate of the Miami Marlins, according to Major League Baseball's team record (MLB Stats API).

That record gives 1970 as the franchise's first year of play and lists the home park as Vystar Ballpark (MLB team record). The city describes the same building as home to the Jumbo Shrimp and to the North American Soccer League's Jacksonville Armada FC, and places it in the Jacksonville Sports Complex with EverBank Stadium, home of the Jaguars (City of Jacksonville). The team gives the ballpark's address as 301 A. Philip Randolph Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32202 (Jumbo Shrimp).

Tickets, box office hours and parking around the ballpark are covered on the Jacksonville sports hub at /florida/jacksonville/sports/, and the Jacksonville baseball history guide at /florida/jacksonville/sports/jacksonville-baseball-history/ covers the clubs that came before.

Last verified: October 18, 2026, by pulling the final 2026 International League standings for Jacksonville and the club record from MLB's stats service, the city's venue list, the 2024 financial report's commitment list and the 2020 naming ordinance, plus the team's ballpark history.

Jacksonville finished 73-74, sixth of ten teams in the International League East and 16.5 games behind the first-place Red Wings, in the 2026 regular season standings MLB last updated on October 11, 2026 (MLB Stats API).

The same standings rank Jacksonville 13th across the whole International League, with a .497 winning percentage over 147 games and a positive run differential of 8 (MLB standings). So Jacksonville scored slightly more runs than it allowed while finishing a game under .500. The team's ballpark page already links a printable 2027 schedule (Jumbo Shrimp).

The city's answer is 121 Financial Ballpark: the Jacksonville City Council approved ordinance 2020-0064-E, authorizing that name for the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville, by a 19-0 vote on February 25, 2020 (City Council records).

The Council record shows the bill introduced on January 28, 2020, approved 7-0 by the Council's NCSPHS committee on February 18 and 7-0 by the Finance Committee on February 19 before the full vote (Jacksonville City Council legislation). The city's venue list uses the 2020 name and notes that the park was previously known as the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville (City of Jacksonville).

Major League Baseball's record for the Jacksonville club uses a different name, Vystar Ballpark (MLB Stats API), and no later naming ordinance turned up in the Council records searched for this page. Visitors will see both names in use; the sports hub explains how the team's own pages print them.

HOK Construction built the ballpark in 2003, and the city lists a 112,000 square foot field with capacity for 10,000 fans (City of Jacksonville).

The team calls it the first completed project of the Better Jacksonville Plan (Jumbo Shrimp), the city program whose major projects included an arena and a baseball park; the city says it has spent over $2 billion on the plan and most projects are complete (City of Jacksonville ACFR).

The team lists three Major League Baseball exhibitions, in 2006, 2010 and 2015, two Southern League All-Star games, in 2003 and 2013, and says the 2013 game drew a league-record 9,373 fans (Jumbo Shrimp ballpark page). On college baseball, the two sources disagree: the team counts four ACC Baseball Tournaments from 2006 to 2009, while the city's venue list says the park held the Atlantic Coast Conference baseball championship from 2005 to 2008 (City of Jacksonville). The team also reports that in 2016 its owner invested $1.8 million in a groups area behind the home bullpen, a Tiki Terrace near the left field foul pole, renovated suites and a larger third-floor lounge (Jumbo Shrimp).

Major League Baseball's venue record adds the playing field's measurements: 321 feet down the left field line, 382 to left center, 420 to center, 375 to right center and 317 down the right field line, on grass under an open sky (MLB venue record). It gives a capacity of 11,000, a thousand more than the 10,000 on the City of Jacksonville venue list, and the two figures are left as each source states them.

The city's fiscal 2024 report lists a construction commitment of 13,259 thousand dollars, about $13.3 million, for a project titled Baseball Grounds, MLB Requirements (City of Jacksonville ACFR).

That Jacksonville figure sits in the report's list of construction and other significant commitments as of September 30, 2024, alongside other city capital projects (ACFR notes). The report does not itemize the work in that line. A Council record does tie the project title to the team: ordinance 2022-0849-E, approved on an emergency basis 18-1 on November 9, 2022, authorized a costs disbursement agreement under which Jacksonville Baseball, LLC makes improvements to the Baseball Grounds of Jacksonville over a 3 year term, funded by the city and consistent with the capital project Baseball Grounds, MLB Requirements (City Council records).

Upkeep runs through two city accounts. The report says the Sports Complex Capital Fund pays for maintenance and upkeep of the municipal stadium, baseball stadium and arena, and that in 2017 the Baseball Stadium fund was folded into a single Venues Fund with the funds for TIAA Bank Field, now EverBank Stadium, Veterans Memorial Arena, the performing arts center, the convention center and the Ritz Theater (City of Jacksonville ACFR). In the same report's ten-year expense table, the Baseball Stadium line shows no separate expenses for fiscal 2021 through 2024, and the Sports Complex Capital Maintenance line shows 30 thousand dollars in fiscal 2024 against 3,223 thousand in fiscal 2023.

The Downtown Investment Authority has had operational control of the Sports Complex Garage and the Arena Garage since a 2022 settlement, the city's fiscal 2024 report says (City of Jacksonville ACFR).

The garages date from a 2004 city loan agreement with Metropolitan Parking Solutions. The report explains that the agreement covered three downtown Jacksonville garages, the Courthouse Garage, the Sports Complex Garage and the Arena Garage, and required the city to lend money to the operator whenever expenses ran ahead of revenue. After litigation began in 2020, ordinance 2021-179-E funded a buyout option, and the 2022 mediated settlement under ordinance 2022-138-E set an annual rental payment of $150,000 from the city and annual loan forgiveness starting at $2.5 million, on a forgivable loan of about $92 million (ACFR notes).

For city-run special event parking in Jacksonville, the Office of Public Parking says most events cost $10.00 per vehicle and major city-sponsored events such as the Jacksonville Jazz Festival cost $20.00, with staff and signs posted at the lots and, in most cases, credit cards the only payment accepted (City of Jacksonville Office of Public Parking). The city page does not list which ballpark games those lots serve, and the team says it does not control parking in the Sports Complex, so the posted sign at the lot is the price to trust on game day.