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League | Frontier League (North Division) |
Location | Brockton, Massachusetts |
Ballpark | Campanelli Stadium |
Founded | 2024 |
Former name(s) | New England Chowdahheads (pre-debut) New England Knockouts (2024) |
Ownership | Bill Janetscheck |
General Manager | John Wilson |
Manager | Jerod Edmondson |
Website | www |
The Brockton Rox are a professional baseball team based in Brockton, Massachusetts. The Rox compete in the Frontier League (FL) as a member of the North Division in the Atlantic Conference and play their home games at Campanelli Stadium.
The team was added to the FL as expansion franchise, the New England Knockouts, prior to the 2024 season. Prior to the 2025 season, the team was renamed, assuming the Brockton Rox name previously used by a collegiate team that played at the same stadium. [1] The Rox are one of the newest FL franchises, along with the Mississippi Mud Monsters and the Down East Bird Dawgs.
The Frontier League announced late in the 2023 season that it would be placing a team in Brockton for the 2024 Frontier League season to replace the Empire State Greys, a traveling team founded when the Southern Illinois Miners were disbanded after their owners retired. Brockton's most recent professional baseball team had been the former iteration of the Brockton Rox, who were founded as a member of the former Northern League in 2002, and left the Can-Am League following the 2011 season to become a collegiate league team.
A team naming contest was conducted following the 2023 season, with five names chosen as finalists. [2] Of these, the most popular was New England Chowdahheads, and the team initially selected it as their new moniker, announcing it in November 2023. [3] However, reactions from fans and local business leaders in the area were lukewarm at best; as such, the owners of the team reconsidered. [4] On December 15, they announced that they would be dropping the Chowdahheads name in favor of a name that was reflective of Brockton's history of producing championship caliber prizefighters such as Rocky Marciano and Marvelous Marvin Hagler—the New England Knockouts. [4]
On January 29, 2025, it was announced that the Knockouts franchise had been acquired by former Greenville Drive and Salem Red Sox owner, Bill Janetscheck. With the change in ownership, the team announced a re-brand to the Brockton Rox. [5] The previously noted Brockton Rox, which originated as a professional team, had competed in the Futures Collegiate Baseball League from 2012 through 2024, the final season of which they shared Campanelli Stadium with the Knockouts.
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Season | W-L record | Win % | Finish | Playoffs |
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2024 | 38–56 | .404 | 6th in FL East | Did not qualify |
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Totals | 38–56 | .404 | — | — |
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