Check out the newest Minor League team logos for 2025
Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from his newsletter is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here.
Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from his newsletter is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here.
We’re roughly two months away from Opening Day, but the offseason is in the books as regards one key metric: All new Minor League team names and primary logos have been unveiled.
Heading into the 2025 campaign, eight Minor League teams will sport a different look. The changes, encompassing entirely new identities (for relocating clubs) as well as overhauls of existing ones, are listed below for your pleasure and convenience.
Team: Hub City Spartanburgers (High-A TEX)
Unveil date: May 11
Occurrence: New identity for relocating team
Designer: Studio Simon
The Down East Wood Ducks, based in Kinston, N.C., played their final season in 2024. Approximately a month after this farewell campaign got underway, details regarding the next iteration of the franchise were unveiled. The Wood Ducks are now the Hub City Spartanburgers, a unique identity in that it includes a city nickname as the place name while incorporating the city itself into the team name. The Spartanburgers, who switched places with the Hickory Crawdads (now Single-A) in the Rangers’ farm system, will play in new Fifth Third Park. Their logos, as befit the name, are based around hamburgers and their accoutrements. READ MORE
Team: Columbus Clingstones (Double-A ATL)
Unveil date: Sept. 6Occurrence: New identity for relocating team
Designer: Studio Simon
The Mississippi Braves, who played in the Jackson suburb of Pearl, are no more. In their place are the Columbus (Ga.) Clingstones, who utilize the color peach as part of their color scheme because they’re named after a type of peach (clingstones, as their name would suggest, cling to the pit). The Clingstones mark the return of Minor League Baseball to Columbus after a 17-year absence, and they’ll play in a ballpark that’s brand-new and has a storied past. Synovus Park is located on the site where the city’s previous stadium, Golden Park, once stood. And, to an extent, still stands, as various aspects of the old stadium are incorporated into the new one. READ MORE
Team: Oklahoma City Comets (Triple-A LAD)
Unveil Date: Oct. 26
Occurrence: New name and logos
Designer: Studio Simon
Since its establishment, Oklahoma City’s Triple-A team has employed five monikers: 89ers (1962-97), Redhawks (1998-2014), Dodgers (2015-23) and, we hardly knew ye, Baseball Club (2024). That final name was a placeholder, as the club transitioned from a Los Angeles Dodgers-linked ownership group to Diamond Baseball Holdings (the team’s affiliation with the Dodgers remains). The Comets name and outer space-themed branding references Oklahoma City’s aerospace industry and reflects a general sense of optimism regarding the growth of the city. It is also a tribute to the best ballplayer to come out of the state of Oklahoma: Mickey Mantle a.k.a The Commerce Comet. READ MORE
Team: Knoxville Smokies (Double-A CHC)
Unveil date: Nov. 7
Occurrence: New place name, updated logos
Designer: GoTeez, updating original logos by Studio Simon
In 2000 the Knoxville Smokies relocated 20 miles east to the town of Kodak and christened themselves the Tennessee Smokies. The Knoxville Smokies have now returned, playing at new Covenant Health Ballpark in the city’s downtown. The new-era Smokies have tweaked their logos accordingly, with the biggest change being “Knoxville,” in cursive, replacing “Tennessee” in the primary logo. "Dan Simon [of Studio Simon] did a great job with the original logo,” said Smokies president Chris Allen. “We decided to be real subtle with the changes.” READ MORE
Team: Chesapeake Baysox (Double-A BAL)
Unveil date: Nov. 22
Occurrence: New place name, new logos
Designer: Younts Design
The Bowie Baysox, established in 1993, have always referenced the Chesapeake Bay in their name. Now that connection has been made explicit. Per team owner Greg Baroni, the change from Bowie to Chesapeake “reflects the broader fan base” of the six-state Chesapeake Bay region while “hold[ing] on to the local traditions and spirit of the Bowie name.” The longtime Baltimore affiliate unveiled new logos in conjunction with the name change, anchored by an “audacious” crab holding the Maryland state flag in its right pincer. READ MORE
Team: Salt Lake Bees (Triple-A LAA)
Unveil date: Nov. 25
Occurrence: New logos
The Bees refreshed their logos in advance of moving into a new stadium, The Ballpark at America First Square. The team’s black-and-gold color scheme remains the same, though an “Angels red” has been added in reference to the parent club. The logo set features several references to franchise history and Salt Lake City’s baseball legacy. The interlocking SL ligature is modeled after the original Bees teams of the early 20th century, as is the “flat bee” secondary mark. A logo featuring Bees script running diagonally through the state of Utah is modeled after a design used by the Angels from 1971-85. READ MORE
Team: Lake County Captains (High-A CLE)
Date: Dec. 3
Occurrence: New logos
The Captains are based in the Cleveland suburb of Eastlake, their nautical identity a reference, in part, to the close proximity of Lake Erie. The Midwest League team's previous primary logo featured the Captains' wordmark imposed over a ship's steering wheel, but now the captain has resumed command. This salty soldier of the seas wears a Captains cap atop his furrowed brow; that hat features a new “C” logo, modeled after Cleveland Indians font of the 1970s. The team also unveiled a secondary “Caps” wordmark, with the letters collectively form the shape of an anchor. READ MORE
Team: Corpus Christi Hooks (Double-A HOU)
Unveil date: Jan 31
Occurrence: New logos
Designer: Courtney Gatlin (Hooks senior manager of creative services)
In advance of their 20th season, the Hooks significantly altered their look. The primary logo features the team wordmark atop a mirador, referencing the eight gazebo-style structures situated along the Corpus Christi bayfront. An outline of the state of Texas is placed between eight stars (representing the miradors) and the wordmark, with the point of a hook designating Corpus Christi’s starred location. An alternate “Sparkling City” logo refers to the south Texas locale’s “Sparkling City by the Sea” nickname. READ MORE
Benjamin Hill is a reporter for MiLB.com and writes Ben's Biz Blog. Follow Ben on Twitter @bensbiz.
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