From Sod Poodles to Nuts, we picked the best mascot in MiLB – The Athletic

Evaluation is a curious thing. Youre trained to look for little particulars that set one profile above the other, one pitch mix sized up against the next, a River Rascal against a Loon, a switch- wait.

Whats a River Rascal?

For a minor-league baseball team, which prides itself on providing family-friendly fun, mascots provide between-inning entertainment and bleacher hijinks. They are even more important to the ballpark experience than their big-league cousins. Theyre also, quite often, much weirder and esoteric. While the minor-league season is all but an official wash, the mascots remain. They will outlive us all.

So how do you determine which ones are the best? Thats what were here to determine.

A few things to keep in mind about the evaluation process:

Mascots develop at their own pace. Talons take time to grow and inflating an inner tube around a pig isnt a process that happens...

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From Sod Poodles to Nuts, we picked the best mascot in MiLB - The Athletic