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The team had much success and many famous future Atlanta players such as Tom Glavine , Chipper Jones , Javy López , Eddie Perez , and Andruw Jones played there. They won multiple Southern League championships, and the 1992 edition, Managed by Grady Little and featuring Chipper Jones and López, won 100 out of 143 games (.699) during the regular season to take the pennant, then captured the SL playoff title. After the 2004 season, the parent club in Atlanta transferred the G-Braves to Pearl, Mississippi , where the team is now known as the Mississippi Braves . The Braves cited an outdated stadium that did not meet current standards and the City of Greenville's unwillingness to create a sufficient financial package to build a new stadium as the cause of the move. With the Greenville Braves out, the Greenville Bombers (formerly the Capital City Bombers ), Class A South Atlantic League affiliate of the Boston Red Sox , moved into the old Braves stadium in 2005. In 2006, a brand new stadium located in Downtown Greenville, West End Field , opened and the Bombers changed their name to the Greenville Drive . |
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