Fans who were looking forward to rocking a Pizza Rats or Rock Pigeons hat next season will be sadly disappointed, as the Staten Island Yankees have announced that they will not be changing their team name or logo for the upcoming season.
The Yankees’ New York-Penn League affiliate solicited submissions back in June for their planned rebrand and three months later released a list of five finalists that would be voted on by fans to determine the club’s new moniker.
Minor league teams have been getting steadily more outlandish with their choice of names and mascots in an attempt to sell merchandise and generate headlines, but the five names Staten Island chose from the reported 2,000-plus submissions were notably wacky even by MiLB standards.