Minor league teams take on new identities to celebrate diversity

Minor league teams, including three out of the Arizona Diamondbacks’ farm system, will celebrate their local Hispanic and Latino communities with fresh color schemes, new logos and new team identities as part of the 2018 season’s Copa de la Diversión or “Fun Cup.”

The Single-A Hillsboro Hops will celebrate the diversity initiative six times as the home team this season, while Single-A Visalia Rawhide will do so nine times. Kane County will have three Copa de la Diversión games.

During those games, the Hops will become the Lúpulos de Hillsboro.

The team takes the name of the common hop (its scientific name, naturally, is Humulus lupulus).

Cielo Azul de Oklahoma City
Hillsboro Lúpulos
Monarcas de Eugene
Visalia Toros
Everett Conquistadores
Sacramento Dorados
San Jose Gigantes#MiLBesDivertido pic.twitter.com/44ov1RpxgH

— MiLB.com (@MiLB) March 20, 2018

Lúpulos = Hops. "LOOP-oo-los."

El nombre reconoce el orgulloso patrimonio agrícola de Hillsboro y el hecho de que Oregón es el segundo estado de mayor producción de lúpulos en los Estados Unidos, además de ser un término usado con regularidad en el béisbol.#SomosLúpulos pic.twitter.com/FqzdtQDjbR

— Lúpulos de Hillsboro (@HillsboroHops) March 20, 2018

Meanwhile, the Rawhide will play as the Visalia Toros.

We know you want one. Good news: they're on sale now:#VivanLosToros #MiLBEsDivertido

Rawhide store: https://t.co/AbQgUXd5lL pic.twitter.com/wYXTnI7lDq

— Visalia Rawhide (@VisaliaRawhide) March 20, 2018

Single-A Kane County also revealed a new look.

El seudónimo Cougars, tal cual, ya representa a toda la región del Condado de Kane: un feroz gato montés de América del Norte, Central y del Sur que se encuentra en cualquier lugar, desde Canadá hasta Argentina.

Más: https://t.co/s0dPY4LqQw pic.twitter.com/fxQVJi6yXh

— Kane County Cougars (@KCCougars) March 20, 2018

The three D-backs minor league teams were among 33 teams taking on new identities. Here is a peek at the new looks, new names and tweaked color-schemes for the other minor-league teams.

Memphis Música
Petroleros de Tulsa
Round Rock Chupacabras
San Antonio Flying Chanclas
Corpus Christi Raspas#MiLBesDivertido pic.twitter.com/4muwYzkkd6

— MiLB.com (@MiLB) March 20, 2018

Omaha Cazadores de Tormentas
El Paso Chihuahuas
Kane County Cougars
Abejas de Salt Lake
Mariachis de Nuevo México#MiLBesDivertido pic.twitter.com/EPKSRzRDjw

— MiLB.com (@MiLB) March 20, 2018

Cangrejos Fantasmas de Chesapeake (Bowie)
Brooklyn Jefes
Pawtucket Osos Polares
Toros de Durham
Lehigh Valley Tocino
Chivos de Hartford #MiLBesDivertido pic.twitter.com/GiXiUPB3AM

— MiLB.com (@MiLB) March 20, 2018

Charlotte Caballeros
Greenville Energía
Rápidos de Kannapolis
Tortugas de Daytona
Winston-Salem Rayados#MiLBesDivertido pic.twitter.com/SotfkxLtnI

— MiLB.com (@MiLB) March 20, 2018