The team is located in Fort Myers, Florida, and plays its home games at JetBlue Park in the Fenway South complex.

The team is composed mainly of players who are in their first year of professional baseball, either as draftees or non-drafted free agents from the United States, Canada, the Dominican Republic and Venezuela, among other countries.

Injured players from the major-league Red Sox and their minor-league system occasionally play rookie-level games as their first step on a rehabilitation assignment.

In 1989, the Red Sox began fielding their own rookie-level team in the Gulf Coast League (GCL).

[2] Various players who have been MLB All-Stars have played for the team; those who were selected as All-Stars multiple times in their careers include: Carl Crawford,[3] Carl Everett,[3] Nomar Garciaparra,[3] Jon Lester,[3] Hanley Ramírez,[3] Anthony Rizzo,[3] and Chris Sale.