Rancho Cucamonga Quakes seeing red with new Angels affiliation

We’ve known for a while that three teams in the Single-A California League will have new Major League parent clubs in 2026. The Modesto Nuts (Mariners) are moving south to San Bernardino to assume the mantle of the Inland Empire 66ers, the former Inland Empire 66ers (Angels) are heading east to become the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, and the former Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (Dodgers) will move into brand-new ONT Field to become the Ontario Tower Buzzers.

With their new parent club lined up, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes today unveiled a set of Angels-inspired red logos, moving away from the largely blue color palette that the team adopted when the franchise moved to Rancho Cucamonga in 1993. Many of the logos are basically red versions of their old blue logos, while others have a distinctly Angels vibe.

The updates to the Quakes brand were implemented by Dan Simon of Studio Simon, the same firm that created the Quakes existing brand nearly a quarter century ago in 2001. The updated look maintains an embroidered fault line across the brim of the cap, which was first implemented with that 2001 rebrand.

Perhaps the most notable addition to the new collection is a lowercase Q logo with an angled halo over it, which evokes a lowercase A cap logo that the then-California Angels used in the early 1970s.

While much of the design work associated with this update was fairly straightforward, there was one change that required a bit more attention.

“One of the things that needed to be redesigned was their alternate jersey,” Dan Simon said. “The alternate jersey that the Quakes had been using was royal blue with white script lettering in the same font as the Dodgers jersey script lettering. That obviously wasn’t going to work with the new affiliation, so that was an opportunity for the Quakes to do something that was inspired by an Angels look in the same way.”

The result is an alternate jersey that evokes those worn by the California Angels in the early 1970s, with the word “rancho” standing in for “angels.”

This is not the first time the Quakes have been affiliated with the Angels. The previous Rancho Cucamonga Quakes franchise (the Dodgers affiliate that is moving to Ontario) was a Padres affiliate from 1993 to 2000, then spent a decade in the Angels’ farm system from 2001 to 2010, and then spent 15 years with the Dodgers from 2011 to 2025.

The new Quakes franchise will play its first game April 2, 2026, against the team that now plays in their old home, the Inland Empire 66ers (the Mariners affiliate that is moving from Modesto to San Bernardino).