The Triple-A minor league baseball franchise in Las Vegas is undergoing an offseason of change. They switched parent clubs from the Mets to the A’s; they’re building a new ballpark in Summerlin, 10 miles west of Cashman Field, their home since the franchise’s days as the Las Vegas Stars beginning
Category: Minor League Baseball
Mobile BayBears unveil Farewell Season logo
The franchise currently known as the Double-A Mobile BayBears announced earlier this year that it would be moving 325 miles to the north to Madison, Alabama, to become the Rocket City Trash Pandas in 2020. The new nickname and logos, unveiled September 6 and October 27 respectively, garnered a ton
Minor league franchise surprises with nickname Rocky Mountain Vibes
An offseason merry-go-round of minor league baseball franchise relocations culminated today with the introduction of the Rocky Mountain Vibes. The team’s Brandiose-designed logos feature a s’mores-based theme with a marshmallow character named Toasty. The new name was not one of the five finalists in a name-the-team contest, but it derived
El Paso Chihuahuas introduce new alternate logos
In many ways, the arrival of the El Paso Chihuahuas in 2014 signaled the full arrival of the era of the wacky minor league logo. They weren’t the first, but they became the poster team, the mascot everyone pointed to when they said, “Look at how outrageous minor league baseball
Nashville Sounds singing a different tune with new logos
Four years after their last major rebrand, the Nashville Sounds overhauled their brand once again. The “remastered” Sounds look is a departure from the wackiness that has defined minor league baseball in recent years. While the last few weeks alone have seen the introduction of the Amarillo Sod Poodles and
Booyah! Green Bay Bullfrogs get New Name, Logos
Booyah! A phrase made popular by late ESPN sportscaster Stuart Scott is now the name of a baseball team. Announced this evening, the Green Bay Bullfrogs of the Northwoods League will now be known as the Green Bay Booyah unveiling a slew of new logos in the process. The name
Amarillo Sod Poodles Announced as new Minor League Ball Team
An offseason Ferris wheel of franchise relocations will bring affiliated Minor League Baseball back to the city of Amarillo, Texas, for the first time since 1982. In an announcement made just moments ago, the Double-A San Antonio Missions franchise is moving 500 miles to the north to become the Amarillo
Wisconsin Timber Rattlers update logos
Every designer has days when they’ve been daydreaming about making subtle changes to a years-old project long enough that they just snap and open up the old files and start working. They ignore the pop-up warning messages that the file was created in Adobe Creative Suite 3 eight years ago
Fayetteville Woodpeckers are the newest team in the minors
Since the contraction of two teams in the California League and the accompanying expansion of the Carolina League two seasons ago, we’ve known that the existence of the Buies Creek Astros was temporary. The Astros were a placeholder for a team destined for Fayetteville, North Carolina, just over 30 miles
Rocket City Trash Pandas unveil logos
The new minor league baseball team in Madison, Alabama, won’t make its debut until 2020, but the buzz around the Rocket City Trash Pandas has been growing for almost two months, since the name was announced at the beginning of September. That buzz crescendoed today with the much-anticipated unveiling of
Syracuse Chiefs rebrand as Syracuse Mets
When the New York Mets purchased the triple-A Syracuse Chiefs before the 2018 season, speculation was rampant that the Chiefs would rebrand as the Syracuse Mets for 2019 and beyond. Governor Andrew Cuomo himself said back in January that the Chiefs would become the Mets, though the team itself would
Round Rock Express introduce new logos with Astros affiliation
Every two years, baseball fans get to witness one of the true wonders of the sports world: the expiration of player development contracts that Major League clubs have with the minor league teams in their farm systems. At most levels, there’s one minor league team for each Major League team,