Drum-roll please...the team says its first alternate identity of the new season will be…The Hartford Thunder Chickens. On a date to be determined, Yard Goats players will dress in the newly ...

The Yard Goats -- and the Thunder Chickens and Leaf Pepers -- are the Double-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. “Our fans love wild alternate identities,” Yard Goats general manager Mike ...

including the New Hampshire Fisher Cats (Chicken Tenders), the Amarillo Sod Poodles (Yellow City Pigweeds) and the Hartford Yard Goats (Thunder Chickens). And while the alternate identities and ...