Atlanta’s second-and-ninth-round picks have arrived. Patrick Clohisy, one of the organization’s best base stealers and defensive assets, will finish his tenure four stolen bases shy of breaking Rome’s single-season record.

Really thrilled to join 97.1 The Fan and Learfield as play-by-play broadcaster for Ohio State women’s basketball/baseball and football sideline reporter on The Ohio State Sports Network. Thank you to Skip Mosic, Matt Fishman and Ohio State Sports Properties for the opportunity!

Alex Lodise is 3-for-4 with a triple, a double, and three driven in tonight in his professional debut. Both extra base hits were to the opposite field, and both were 97+ off the bat.

Atlanta’s no.6 prospect returns to the mound where he earned SAL Pitcher of the Week honors (twice) and SAL Pitcher of the Month honors in 2024. Murphy was 4-2 with a 1.54 ERA and racked up 60 strikeouts across 41.0 innings before his season-ending injury. He’s slated to start

Alex Lodise on his excellent debut, the Atlanta Braves organization, and his expectations for the rest of 2025:

Owen Murphy’s first trip through the order sees him strike out seven Grasshoppers. Fastball is 92-93, Slider is 84-86 and was the out pitch for five of the seven Ks.

Owen Murphy impresses over 3.1 innings in his return to Rome. His line: 3.1 IP 8 SO 2 H 54P (37S) The 2022 first-rounder is officially back.

Baseball’s top prospect, Konnor Griffin, just stole his 50th base of 2025. In his 12 games played against the Rome Emperors this season: 17-for-48 (.354) 6 doubles 1 triple 2 home runs 10 runs driven in 10 stolen bases 9 runs scored Undoubtedly the most polished

RHP J.J. Niekro has officially retired from baseball at age 27. The son of Joe and nephew to Phil compiled 275.1 innings across four levels of the Braves system, logging eight Double-A starts in 2024 before undergoing a second TJ surgery. I spoke to J.J. on Sunday and he was in

Time stamped and everything. Coming up on 20 year anniversary of this and we’re a Bryce Perkins legacy game away from being 0-18 since…

.Rome Emperors reliever Cory Wall is being promoted to Double-A Columbus after posting a 0.84 ERA across 24 relief appearances this season. An eighth-round pick out of William and Mary in 2023, Wall is enjoying career-bests in WHIP (0.94), BAA (.182), BABIP (.261), FIP (2.30) and

Day 0 for me with Hometown Sports Media as the pregame and postgame show host. Excited to be joining such a talented team of producers and broadcasters for this 2025 high school football season.

Five more scoreless, hitless innings tonight for Atlanta Braves no.6 prospect Owen Murphy who has yet to give up an earned run over 11.1 innings and owns a 0.26 WHIP since his return to baseball. Curveball much more prevalent tonight as seen in the last two strikeouts. Fastball sat

.Rome Emperors shortstop Alex Lodise debuts at no.4 in MLB Pipeline’s first post-draft Top 30 prospect rankings. Fellow Emps’ who also make the list: 8. RHP Garrett Baumann 10. RHP Owen Murphy 18. RHP Luke Sinnard 20. LHP Herick Hernandez

LHP Jacob Kroeger sustained his JR Ritchie-like-run of starts of allowing two or fewer earned runs on Thursday, tossing six shutout against Bowling Green. Over 12 career starts, Jacob has gone at least 5.0 innings in 9 of the 12 and given up two or fewer earned runs in 10 of

What a time to be alive… Blooper Rome Emperors