[1][2] Specific players are invited (not assigned) to play in the AFL by their parent club.

Each team plays approximately 30 games; schedule length has varied somewhat during the league's history.

Following the end of the league's regular season, the two division winners meet in a championship game.

Players wear uniforms of their respective MLB parent club, along with an AFL team-specific hat.

[2] Each team plays home games at its own ballpark, each of which currently has a seating capacity in excess of 10,000 spectators.

[8] Players for the game are selected by league staff, scouting and farm directors, and MLB.com writers.

[9] The league's inaugural season was 1992, during which each team played a 54-game schedule that ended in early December.

[10] The divisions and teams that season were:[11] The league's first game was played on October 6, 1992,[12] with the Grand Canyon Rafters defeating the Scottsdale Scorpions, 6–4.

[13] Before the 1994 season, the Javelinas relocated from Tucson to Peoria, to limit travel distances to the Phoenix metropolitan area.

[15] For the 1998 season, organizers rostered players onto each Arizona Fall League team from a single division in MLB:[4]

[3] These include David Wright (2003), Dustin Pedroia (2004), Andre Ethier (2005), Bryce Harper (2010–2011), Nolan Arenado (2011), Mike Trout (2011), Mookie Betts (2013), Aaron Judge (2014), Gleyber Torres (2016), and Ronald Acuña Jr.

[21] Similarly, former NFL quarterback Tim Tebow played for Scottsdale in 2016 during his foray into professional baseball.

[22] Each stadium hosts one or two of its MLB affiliates, denoted in bold, during spring training.

Tie games are not listed, as they are excluded from winning percentage calculations, which determine division standings.

2023 Notes: First presented in 2002 and named for Joe Black of the Brooklyn Dodgers, the award honors the 1952 National League Rookie of the Year.