Vermont Lake Monsters
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| Vermont Lake Monsters Founded in 1994 Burlington, Vermont |
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| League titles | 1996 | ||
| Division titles | 1995,1996 | ||
| Owner(s)/Operated by: Ray Pecor, Jr. | |||
| Manager: Darnell Coles | |||
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The Vermont Lake Monsters are a single-A minor league baseball team in Burlington, Vermont, USA. The team, a member of the short-season New York-Penn League, plays its home games at Centennial Field on the University of Vermont campus. The team was located in Jamestown, New York (as the Jamestown Expos) prior to 1994, and has always been an Expos/Nationals affiliate.
The team was considering a name change from their name of the Vermont Expos for the 2005 season, as its major-league parent, the Montreal Expos, had moved to Washington, D.C. and became the Washington Nationals. However, because Minor League Baseball only gives clubs 60 days after the end of the season to change names and logos, the club did not have enough time for a name change.
The Expos held a contest to find a new name and identity for the team for the 2006 season. They were looking for something unique, to reflect Vermont, as opposed to the Nationals, in case the team were to change its major-league affiliation. At the end of the contest, they received 30,000 entries. In November, 2005, the team completed the process of changing their name over. The chosen name is a reference to Champ, the legendary monster of Lake Champlain.
On August 16, 2005 the then-Expos were featured on ESPN SportsCenter as a part of the program's "50 States in 50 Days" segment on Vermont.
[edit] Notable Expos
Geoff Blum (1994, Houston Astros)
Orlando Cabrera (1995, Chicago White Sox)- Michael Barrett (1995, Chicago Cubs)
- Milton Bradley (1997, Texas Rangers)
Jorge Julio (1998, Cleveland Indians)
Jason Bay (2000, Pittsburgh Pirates)- Brandon Watson (2000, AAA Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs; set the Minor League Baseball hit-streak record of 43 games in 2007)
- Brian Anderson (2002, AA Connecticut Defenders)
- Jason Bergmann (2002)
- Darrell Rasner (2002, New York Yankees)
- Jerry Owens (2003, AAA Charlotte Knights; only played two games with team)
- John Lannan (2005)
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