The Kansas City Royals have unveiled a new home alternate uniform, officially announced via their social media accounts yesterday morning. White with gold accents, the new uniform will be worn for each Friday home game in 2017 and likely seasons beyond. Unlike the gold-themed uniform worn this past season, this
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New Orleans Baby Cakes Announced as New Name for Zephyrs
The Cake Was Not A Lie. The Pacific Coast League’s New Orleans Zephyrs today unveiled “New Orleans Baby Cakes” as their new name, the team also unveiled their new team logos and uniforms. The announcement came just a few hours after some poor soul who works for MLB or MiLB.com
Kansas City Royals Tease Return of Gold Uniform in 2017
The Kansas City Royals would like you to remember they won the World Series recently. Last year, as most recent defending World Champions do, the Royals wore a version of their standard uniform with gold trim for their opening series… it looked good. While every other team stopped right there to focus
Baby Cakes? Official Site May Have Leaked Zephyrs New Name
It’s not set to be announced until later this evening but the official website of Minor League Baseball may have jumped the gun a little bit early. Or it’s just a clever attempt to send us in the wrong direction. Regardless, for a few hours early this morning the Pacific Coast
2017 NY-Penn League All-Star Logo Unveiled
The Tri-City ValleyCats unveiled the logo for the 2017 New York-Penn League All-Star Game which they will be hosting at Troy’s Joseph L. Bruno Stadium on August 15, 2017. It will be the second time the ValleyCats host the NYPL All-Star Game. Featuring landmarks of each of the three upstate New
Arizona D-Backs Announce Tweaks to Uniforms for 2017
The Arizona Diamondbacks heard you, loud and clear. This past December the D-Backs unveiled a brand new set of uniforms, they were anti-tradition — from the dark grey (almost black) used for road tops and pants, to the gradient at the bottom of the pant legs fans and opposing players even were
MLB is going to destroy all phantom Cleveland World Series champs merchandise
Cleveland’s baseball team came just short of ending their own extremely long title drought, but they’ll have to wait until next year to have another shot at it. Here at this particular site, we normally give you a look at the “phantom” champions merchandise that never gets used. Concurrently, that
Binghamton Mets transform into Binghamton Rumble Ponies
Hey everybody, another minor league baseball team has switched their nickname to (Adjective) (Animal)s! What a week this has been for rebranding in minor league baseball, and things show no signs of slowing down, either. Today, the Binghamton Mets were the latest team to shed their relatively nondescript moniker in
Cleveland Indians 2016 Phantom World Series Champs
Alright Cleveland, you flew too close to the sun in 2016. After 40+ years of no pro-level championships in the city the Indians were one win away, three games in a row, of taking home their second major title in the last four months. The championship gods can be cruel,
(Adjective) (Animal)s Announced as New Minor League Name
Earlier today we got ourselves a new Minor League Baseball team name! Introducing the (Adjective) (Animal)s! The name was announced via the official team social media channels following a brief name-the-team contest which yielded several underwhelming finalist names. Reaction to the new name was met with skepticism but team officials stressed that they
Jacksonville minor league baseball drops Suns moniker for Jumbo Shrimp
Ever since 1962 (with the exception of a few years), there has been some sort of minor league baseball team in Jacksonville, Florida who went with the nickname of the Suns. It was one of the rare minor league baseball identities that truly stood the test of time. When you
Mariners Announce, Unveil 40th Anniversary Patch for 2017
The Seattle Mariners will be celebrating their 40th anniversary throughout the entire 2017 season with two special patches to mark the occasion. Featuring the Seattle skyline complete with Mount Rainier in the background, the Mariners 40th anniversary logo also superimposes the nautical compass rose from their primary logo onto the zero in the design