Yesterday, the Salem Red Sox, Single-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox in the Carolina League, unveiled its new moniker and looks. From now on, the Salem Red Sox will be called the Salem Ridge Yaks. The Ridge Yaks held a kind of “gender reveal party” in its ballpark. The scoreboard was at the center…
The other week, the Ontario baseball club unveiled the name of their new ballpark. Yesterday, the club unveiled the name and look for the 2026 season. The Ontario baseball announced at a unveiling event on Thursday night, the club adopts the name Ontario Tower Buzzers. The name comes from the movie Top Gun in which…
The former Lakeland Tigers changed their moniker into Flying Tigers in 2007 after the team took a successful rebranding of the Clearwater Threshers, also a Florida State League team, as an example. But how did the Flying Tigers get their current name? Read on and you will learn. As written in the prologue, the parent…
In the previous decade, I wrote several blog posts about the origin of team names in the Minors. Since the reprise in 2020, some new names were added. Here is an overview of the names that appeared since then. B: Beloit SkyCarp After the Beloit Snappers moved into their new stadium, the club wanted to…
Yesterday, the Salem Red Sox, Single-A affiliate of the Boston Red Sox, announced a rebrand for the 2026 season. The team will finish this season as the Salem Red Sox as affiliated minor league baseball does not allow to rebrand during the season. Back in the day, it was a common thing to name the…
After the Oklahoma Dodgers played under the name Oklahoma City Baseball during the 2024 season, as an omen of the new name that was about to come, the club announced its new moniker and uniforms yesterday. The club will be named Oklahoma City Comets. My first thoughts were “Why Comets? What is the link between…
About a year ago, the Lexington Legends changed their name into Lexington CounterClocks. But the new ownership of the club decided to return to the previous moniker. The Lexington Legends were one of the 40 clubs that were kicked out of affiliated minor league baseball in a move that saves the greedy MLB owners about…
It is that time of the year again. Minor League teams coming up with new names and new looks. This time it is the turn of the Greensboro Grasshoppers, the High-A farm team of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Last night, the club unveiled a new and fresh look. New uniforms and new logos. The look remains…
The Rome Braves are the High-A farm team of the Atlanta Braves. For more than twenty years, the club is linked to and named after the parent club in Atlanta. But 2023 will be the last one. From 2024, the club will operate under a new name. Several players have donned the jersey of Rome:…
Two years after the club was cut from affiliated ball by MLB, the Lexington Legends have adopted a new identity. Currently playing in the Atlantic League (Indy), the team has named itself the Lexington Counter Clocks. Just like the name Legends, the new moniker relates to the horse racing, which Lexington is (world) famous for….
