.This evening the name of future Double-An associate for the Atlanta Braves was actually unveiled 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 will be actually moving to Columbus after 20 years in Pearl, MS.The soon-to-be Clingstones are actually owned by the Precious Stone Baseball Holdings who acquired the group coming from the Atlanta ga Braves just before the 2022.
Gemstone Baseball Holdings, which is had by Endeavor, owns countless staffs in Minor League Baseball, consisting of each one of the Braves affiliates.Next season all of Atlanta georgia’s top MiLB associates are going to play in in or even near Georgia along with the Clingstones participating in the Triple-A Gwinnett Stripers and Single-A Rome Emperors in the condition and also the Single-A Augusta GreenJackets playing in South Carolina, just around the state line coming from Augusta, GA. As for the staff label, Clingstone is a form of peach. Although Columbus was known for its cloth market 2 generations earlier, and is home to a number of huge insurer, the brand-new name for Columbus’ baseball group referrals Georgia being actually referred to as “the peach state”.They will definitely play in Synovus Playground, formerly called Golden Park, which opened in 1926.
The arena is being actually restored before the 2025 season. Columbus had actually done without a minor league staff considering that 2008.