There are 120 Minor League Baseball groups, and so they every play roughly 70 house video games a 12 months. Within the curiosity of not doing math, let’s simply say this leads to numerous gameday promotions over the course of the season. Theme nights, giveaways, celeb appearances and extra are a every day incidence, leading to a season-long cavalcade of off-kilter ballpark enjoyable.
However which Minor League promotions had been the very best of the very best this 12 months? It is an endlessly debatable and thus primarily unanswerable question, however we’re giving it our greatest shot. What follows are the standout promos of the 2025 season, one every from an affiliate in each MLB group.
Blue Jays: New Hampshire Area Potatoes Nights (Double-A New Hampshire Fisher Cats)New Hampshire was house to a extensively reported (alleged) alien abduction, the Barney and Betty Hill incident, which passed off within the White Mountains in 1961. The Granite State can be an avid producer of potatoes, the state’s official vegetable. Mash potatoes and extraterrestrials collectively and you’ve got Area Potatoes, an unparalleled alternate id the Fisher Cats donned thrice over the course of the season.
Orioles: Norfolk Tandangs Nights (Triple-A Norfolk Tides)Norfolk, Va., is house to a big inhabitants of Filipino Individuals. Final season the Tide honored that group by enjoying because the Lumpia; in 2025 they remodeled into the Tandangs for 2 video games. This id, designed by a staff of native Filipino-American creatives, contains a combating rooster (the Tandang) and features a plethora of design parts referencing the nation’s historical past and tradition.
Rays: Bathroom Paper Evening (Single-A Charleston RiverDogs)The RiverDogs, proponents of experiential promotions, handed out 2,000 rolls of bathroom paper on the conclusion of their Could 31 recreation. The ensuing team-approved vandalism turned Joseph P. Riley Jr. Park right into a tissue bedecked mess.
Purple Sox: Orange Trash Monster Bobblehead Giveaway (Double-A Portland Sea Canine)Portland’s Hadlock Discipline is house to 2 Trash Monsters, one inexperienced and one orange. Each are totally functioning rubbish cans in monster type, encouraging followers to maintain the ballpark clear. The Sea Canine honored Orange Trash Monster together with his personal bobblehead this season, inflicting his counterpart to show greener with envy.
Yankees: Renegades The Musical! (Excessive-A Hudson Valley Renegades)In a Minor League Baseball first, the Renegades staged an authentic musical in between innings of their Aug. 6 recreation. The manufacturing, carried out in 90-second increments, centered across the ballpark expertise and featured characters similar to The Lavatory Line Woman.
Guardians: Akron Galley Boys Nights (Double-A Akron RubberDucks)Akron was an epicenter of quick meals, starting within the late Nineteen Forties, with eating places like Swenson’s, Skyway and Dilly’s making an affect within the metropolis and past. The RubberDucks’ Galley Boys alternate id paid tribute to the hamburger cooks who stored the folks fed whereas working in cramped galley kitchens.
Royals: Take Meow’t to the Ballgame (Triple-A Omaha Storm Chasers)This season marked Omaha’s fifth iteration of “Take Meow’t to the Ballgame,” wherein cats are invited to the ballpark (in carriers or on leashes). Cat-themed between-inning promos and videoboard graphics improve the theme, as does the Kitty Litter Sundae concession particular.
Tigers: Erie Moon Mammoths (Double-A Erie SeaWolves)In Could, “Final Week Tonight with John Oliver” ran a section on Minor League promotions that concluded with Oliver’s provide to create a brand new id for one Minor League staff. The SeaWolves had been chosen, and Oliver and his workers created the Moon Mammoths: a tribute to the wooly mammoth bones that had been found in Erie County’s Lake Nice by a diver named George Moon. They debuted in July with Oliver in attendance.
Twins: Sunday Runday In-Park Marathon (Triple-A St. Paul Saints)Seigo Masabuchi, a Saints’ “Ushertainer” identified for his nightly karaoke performances on the dugout, can be a long-distance runner. On Could 11, he ran a marathon on the concourse of CHS Discipline, working 84 laps in 90-degree warmth.
White Sox: Promenade Wasn’t Inbuilt a Day (Excessive-A Winston-Salem Sprint)The Winston-Salem Sprint had been scheduled to open the season on the street in opposition to the Rome Emperors, however a ballpark pipe burst compelled the season-opening collection to be held at Winston-Salem’s Truist Stadium as a substitute. A highschool promenade was already scheduled to happen at Truist Stadium, nevertheless, forcing the Sprint to host the sport and the large dance concurrently. The consequence: Promenade Wasn’t Inbuilt a Day.
Angels: Trash Jersey Giveaway (Double-A Rocket Metropolis Trash Pandas)The Rocket Metropolis Trash Pandas title is, partly, impressed by a slang time period for racoons. This season, nevertheless, they gave away a jersey that merely learn “Trash” throughout the entrance. To some, it was a treasure.
Astros: Spencer Arrighetti Bobblehead Giveaways (Triple-A Sugar Land Area Cowboys & Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks)Mix Spencer and Arrighetti and you find yourself, roughly, with spaghetti. Each Corpus Christi and Sugar Land gave away a bobblehead of the Astros right-hander holding a meatball-topped plate of spaghetti whereas standing atop a heaping pile of, sure, much more spaghetti.
Athletics: Las Vegas Stomach Busters Evening (Triple-A Las Vegas Aviators)Many Minor League Baseball alternate identities pay tribute a selected meals. Stomach Busters, in the meantime, pays tribute to all meals, and consuming as a lot of it as you presumably can at one in every of Las Vegas’s legendary all-you-can-eat buffets. It’s an ode to extra, coming from a metropolis that is aware of a factor or two about taking it to the restrict.
Mariners: Barkansas Dizzys Collection (Double-A Arkansas Vacationers)Dizzy, a cream-colored canine owned by Vacationers VP of Stadium Operations Greg Johnston, is a ballpark celeb identified for mingling with followers and signing “pawtographs.” The Vacationers suited up because the Barkansas Dizzys for a whole six-game collection in June, happening to win “Greatest Alternate Id” on the 2025 MiLB Awards.
Rangers: Dickory Docks Alarm Clock Giveaway (Single-A Hickory Crawdads)In 2023, the Hickory Crawdads grew to become the primary Minor League staff to unveil an alternate id primarily based on a nursery rhyme: The Hickory Dickory Docks. This 12 months, the staff upped the ante by making a gift of a Hickory Dickory Docks retro alarm clock. Rise and grind.
Braves: CSRA River Donkeys Nights (Single-A Augusta GreenJackets)The CSRA (Central Savannah River Space) River Donkeys id — which the GreenJackets adopted for 2 video games — is a barely redundant tribute to the donkeys of Stallings Island, an archaeological website positioned close to Augusta. The donkeys arrived on the island in roundabout trend, launched as a way to discourage coyotes from consuming the landscaping goats. Nature, and man’s try to manage it, is wild.
Marlins: Jacksonville Honey Drippers Nights (Triple-A Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp)Jacksonville’s Honey Drippers alternate id is a multi-hued homage to an iconic frozen dessert, popularized within the metropolis’s Eastside neighborhood, that always consists of recent fruit. The Honey Dripper in query is depicted holding a spoon as a bat, as a result of that’s simply one thing an anthropomorphic dessert on a baseball hat ought to do.
Mets: Are You The Lizard King Evening (Triple-A Syracuse Mets)An Apple TV documentary superior the idea that Doorways entrance man Jim Morrison faked his personal dying and was dwelling in Syracuse as a upkeep man named Frank X. The Mets tracked down Frank X. and invited him to the ballpark for a Doorways-themed Thirsty Thursday.
Nationals: Bruce the Bat Canine Bobblehead Giveaway (Triple-A Rochester Purple Wings)Bruce the bat canine debuted with the Rochester Purple Wings this season and shortly grew to become a fan favourite. How might he not? On July 6, the staff honored the fetching golden retriever together with his very personal bobblehead.
Phillies: Garrett Stubbs Gobblehead Giveaway (Triple-A Lehigh Valley IronPigs)Phillies cult hero Garrett Stubbs performed for the IronPigs for practically all of 2025, and the staff honored him with a “gobblehead” that depicts the lovable backstop as some kind of half-man, half-turkey hybrid. Why? As a result of the giveaway merchandise was sponsored by an area turkey farm, and that’s purpose sufficient.
Brewers: Rick Candy Bobble’stache (Triple-A Nashville Sounds)Nashville Sounds skipper Rick Candy has received over 2,400 Minor League video games — the third most of all time — over a managerial profession that started in 1987. The Sounds celebrated the person and his bushy swath of higher lip hair with a bobble’stache figurine giveaway. You’ll by no means have to shave it.
Cardinals: José Oquendo Bobble-arm Giveaway, Springfield Cardinals (Double-A STL)José “Secret Weapon” Oquendo performed each place on the diamond throughout his profession with the St. Louis Cardinals after which went on to function the staff’s third base coach. Springfield’s Oquendo “bobble-arm” giveaway commemorates this portion of his illustrious Cardinals profession.
Cubs: Citizenship Ceremony (Triple-A Iowa Cubs)One in all Minor League Baseball’s greatest traditions returned for its seventeenth season, because the Iowa Cubs kicked off their Independence Day festivities with an on-field citizenship ceremony at Principal Park. Courting again to 2009, over 500 people from six continents have taken half on this Fourth of July custom.
Pirates: Terrible Evening (Double-A Altoona Curve)The Curve first staged Terrible Evening in 2003, with the straightforward purpose of creating the ballpark expertise as terrible as attainable. Lowlights this season included a Title that Odor contest, musical efficiency by Scorching Canine Boy and a mascot clad in nothing however a purple Speedo and a Santa hat.
Reds: Nothing Evening (Triple-A Louisville Bats)Nothing Evening is, fairly merely, a ballpark expertise stripped of its modern-day accoutrements. Because the Bats put it, “No walk-up music, in-game promotions or actions, simply baseball in its purest type.” Come for nothing, keep for the musical stylings of visitor organist Al Greener.
D-backs: Helicopter Sweet Drop (Single-A Visalia Rawhide)There actually isn’t a lot to clarify, because the title of this tried-and-true postgame basic says all of it. A helicopter dropped 500 kilos of sweet onto the sector and members of the Rawhide Children Membership had been then invited onto the sector to seize as a lot of it as they presumably might. Nothing beats a very good free-for-all.
Dodgers: Tulsa Hen Dancers Weekend (Double-A Tulsa Drillers)Do you know that the ballpark staple often known as “The Hen Dance” originated on the 1981 Tulsa Oktoberfest? The Drillers paid tribute to this little bit of native lore with a Hen Dancers alternate id from Could 15-18.
Giants: Diamonds Aren’t Without end (Double-A Richmond Flying Squirrels)The Flying Squirrels stated goodbye to The Diamond in 2025, Richmond’s Minor League Baseball house since 2025. Their season-closing homestand featured a time capsule, an 1989 Richmond Braves reunion, a bobblehead that includes superfan Ray Edwards and extra.
Padres: Fort Wayne Daisies Evening That includes Megan Cavanagh (Excessive-A Fort Wayne TinCaps)From 1945-54 the Fort Wayne Daises had been a powerhouse inside the All-American Ladies Skilled League, the all-female circuit immortalized in “A League of Their Personal.” The TinCaps paid house to the Daises, suiting up as such whereas welcoming staff and league alumni — in addition to Megan “Marla Hooch” Cavanagh — to the ballpark.
Rockies: Fresno Tacos tenth Anniversary (Single-A Fresno Grizzlies)The Grizzlies launched their Tacos alternate id in 2015, sparking a wave of regional food-themed alternate identities all through the Minor Leagues. The staff celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Tacos in 2025 with uniforms that includes a taco truck and a sleeve patch that learn “The OG Alternate Id.”
