Winston-Salem Dash

• Location: Winston-Salem, NC
• League: Carolina League 2009-2019; High-A East 2021; South Atlantic League 2022-
• Affiliation: Chicago White Sox 2009-present
• Ballpark:Wake Forest Baseball Park 2009; Truist Stadium 2010-present

Team History

The Winston-Salem Dash, of the High-A South Atlantic League, briefly in High-A East, and formerly of the then-High-A Carolina League, are mostly owned by their parent club. The Chicago White Sox farmhands play their home games at Truist Stadium in Winston-Salem, NC.

The ChiSox bought a majority stake in their then 16-season affiliate in 2014. NBA star Chris Paul is a minority owner.

MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization raised the nearby Greensboro Grasshoppers one level, putting them and the Dash in the same league for the first time since 1968. Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan offered a friendly wager on their season series, putting up a pair of Wrangler jeans, and Winston-Salem's Allen Joines covered with a dozen hot Krispy Kremes; the 'Hoppers August 12th victory gave Vaughan the Kremes.

More than 100 years ago, as Winston and Salem were growing together, they fielded a joint professional baseball team that took the nickname Twins in 1908. The cities officially merged five years later - adding the hyphen from which the Winston-Salem Warthogs would misappropriate "Dash" in 2009.

However, on May 6, 2023, the Winston-Salem Dash played as the Winston-Salem Hyphens. For a promotion called "Salute to Winston-Salem" to be held that day, Dash President and General Manager Brian DeAngelis posted a video asking Mayor Joines to formally rename the city Winston-DASH-Salem. Joines replied via video post that "would be grammatically incorrect because really the dash is a hyphen." The Dash posted the request and four rebuttals[1]) and scheduled the alternate-brand game. Nicely, the Hyphens' opponent was none other than the Dash's rival Grasshoppers. The Hyphens won, 8-0.

The Dash play Copa de la Diversión Hispanic engagement campaign games as Winston-Salem Salsa, with the branding suggesting it refers not to the dance but to the sauce.

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs	Hitting coach	Pitching coach	Coach
2009	73-65	3rd	Joe McEwing	Lost in 1st round	Rob Sasser	Bobby Thigpen
2010	81-58	1st	Joe McEwing	Lost League Finals	Rob Sasser	Bobby Thigpen
2011	69-71	4th	Julio Vinas		Rob Sasser Gary Ward	Bobby Thigpen
2012	87-51	1st	Tommy Thompson	Lost League Finals	Gary Ward	J.R. Perdew
2013	71-69	4th	Ryan Newman		Rob Sasser	J.R. Perdew
2014	61-78	8th	Tommy Thompson		Gary Ward	J.R. Perdew
2015	75-63	2nd	Tim Esmay	Lost in 1st round	Charles Poe	J.R. Perdew
2016	56-83	6th	Joel Skinner		Charles Poe	Jose Bautista
2017	56-84	10th	Willie Harris		Charles Poe	Brian Drahman
2018	84-54	1st	Omar Vizquel	Lost in 1st round	Charles Poe	Matt Zaleski	Guillermo Quiroz
2019	72-61	3rd	Justin Jirschele		Jamie Dismuke	Matt Zaleski	John Ely
2020	Season cancelled
2021	43-76	12th	Ryan Newman		Mike Daniel	Danny Farquhar
2022	58-74	10th	Lorenzo Bundy		Nicky Delmonico	Danny Farquhar
2023	60-66	10th	Guillermo Quiroz		Jason Krizan	John Ely	Daniel Millwee, Logan Jones
2024			Guillermo Quiroz		Jim Rickon	John Kovalik	Darius Day, Logan Jones

External Link

• Official site