.This evening the name of future Double-An affiliate for the Atlanta Braves was revealed as the Columbus Clingstones. The Clingstones will certainly start play in Columbus, GA in 2025. It was actually announced in January 2024 that the Mississippi Braves would be relocating to Columbus after twenty years in Pearl, MS.The future Clingstones are actually had by the Diamond Baseball Holdings who obtained the team from the Atlanta Braves before the 2022.
Diamond Baseball Holdings, which is actually owned through Endeavor, possesses several staffs in Minor League Baseball, featuring each of the Braves affiliates.Following time each of Atlanta’s top MiLB partners will certainly play in in or near Georgia with the Clingstones signing up with the Triple-A Gwinnett Stripers and also Single-A Rome Emperors in the state as well as the Single-A Augusta GreenJackets playing in South Carolina, merely around the condition line coming from Augusta, GA. When it comes to the team label, Clingstone is actually a sort of mango. Although Columbus was known for its own cloth industry two generations earlier, and is home to a number of huge insurance companies, the brand new label for Columbus’ baseball group references Georgia being actually referred to as “the peach state”.They will definitely play in Synovus Playground, previously known as Golden Playground, which opened in 1926.
The arena is being actually renovated ahead of the 2025 time. Columbus had actually lacked a minors group given that 2008.