Gwinnett Braves

The Gwinnett Braves are a professional minor league baseball team based in unincorporated Gwinnett County, Georgia, within the Atlanta metropolitan area. The team plays in the South Division of the International League, and they are the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball club. They are located 35 miles northeast of their parent club's stadium, SunTrust Park in unincorporated Cobb County—the second-shortest distance between a Triple-A team and its major league parent (behind only the Pacific Coast League's Tacoma Rainiers, based 26 miles south of Seattle).

The team was previously located in Richmond, Virginia, where it was known as the Richmond Braves for 43 seasons (1966–2008). They relocated to suburban Atlanta in 2009.

The move to Gwinnett County marked a return home of sorts for the Braves, as the team began life as the Atlanta Crackers in 1901. They became the top affiliate of the then-Milwaukee Braves in 1965. When the Braves moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966, they moved the Crackers to Richmond, where the minor league franchise took the name of the parent club. The 2017 season is be the 53rd season of the affiliation between the Richmond/Gwinnett Braves and the major league Braves, the longest-running affiliation in Triple-A.

Rebranding in 2018
The Braves plan to rebrand for the 2018 season by adopting a name that has a significance to the area and its population. A name-the-team contest has been launched to determine five to six candidates for new monikers which will then be voted on by fans.