We’ve known for a while that three Major League Baseball teams will have new affiliates in the Single-A California League in 2026. The Modesto Nuts (Mariners) are moving south to San Bernardino to assume the mantle of the Inland Empire 66ers, the former Inland Empire 66ers (Angels) are heading east to become the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes, and the former Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (Dodgers) will move into brand-new ONT Field to become the Ontario Tower Buzzers.
With their new parent club lined up, the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes today unveiled a set of Angels-inspired red logos, moving away from the largely blue color palette that the team adopted when the franchise moved to Rancho Cucamonga in 1993. Many of the logos are simply red versions of their old blue logos, while others have a distinctly Angels vibe.
Perhaps the most notable addition to the new collection is a lowercase Q logo with an angled halo over it, which evokes a lowercase A cap logo that the then-California Angels used in the early 1970s.
This is not the first time the Quakes have been affiliated with the Angels. The previous Rancho Cucamonga Quakes franchise (the Dodgers affiliate that is moving to Ontario) was a Padres affiliate from 1993 to 2000, then spent a decade in the Angels’ farm system from 2001 to 2010, and then spent 15 years with the Dodgers from 2011 to 2025.
The new Quakes franchise will play its first game April 2, 2026, against the team that now plays in their old home, the Inland Empire 66ers (the Mariners affiliate that is moving from Modesto to San Bernardino).
