{"id":437216,"date":"2025-12-10T06:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437216\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T06:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:19:18","slug":"prospector-baseball-group-buys-jacksonville-jumbo-shrimp-says-the-name-wont-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/437216\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospector Baseball Group buys Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, says the name won\u2019t change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPORTS<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 lhBXaj jdBbpv\">Prospector Baseball Group has acquired the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, the team announced on Tuesday.\u00a0Current owner Ken Babby is part of the group buying the Tampa Bay Rays \u2014 and he\u2019s now the Rays\u2019 new CEO. He also owns the Akron RubberDucks, the Guardians\u2019 affiliate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to welcome the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp to the Prospector Baseball Group family,\u201d John Abbamondi and Ben Boyer said, co-founders of PBG, in a joint statement. \u201cThe Jumbo Shrimp are one of the most vibrant franchises in Minor League Baseball, built on a commitment to \u2018Affordable Family Fun\u2019 that we are honored to continue. \u201cWe are grateful to Ken Babby and his partners for their leadership and honored to have the opportunity to build upon their success. We believe in providing an exceptional, accessible game day experience at VyStar Ballpark, and we are equally excited for the Jumbo Shrimp to be a catalyst for the future growth of Downtown Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPORTS Prospector Baseball Group has acquired the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, the team announced on Tuesday.\u00a0Current owner Ken Babby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":437217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,78276,46711,202112,1266,202114,62,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-437216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jumbo-shrimp","13":"tag-marlins","14":"tag-milb","15":"tag-mlb","16":"tag-prospector-baseball-group","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115693824488296000","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}