PBATS NEWSLETTER the Annual Publication of the PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL ATHLETIC TRAINERS SOCIETY
PROUDLY PRESENTS EST 1983 Spring 2018 // Vol. 31 The NEWSLETTER Spring 2018 // Vol. 31 PBATS NEWSLETTER The Annual Publication of the PROFESSIONAL BASEBALL ATHLETIC TRAINERS SOCIETY IN THE SPOTLIGHT: RON PORTERFIELD By: Mark Vinson, MEd, ATC, CSCS, Assistant Athletic Trainer, Tampa Bay Rays 2003, he was promoted n Opening Day 2018, as players and to the major leagues coaches take the field for the first time in as the Rays’ assistant the new season, one notable face will be athletic trainer, and O missing from the Tampa Bay Rays’ baseline. again in 2006 to head For the first time since 2003, Ron Porterfield will not athletic trainer—a take his place alongside the players he developed, title he held for the trained and even helped lead to the 2008 World remainder of his tenure Series. This past fall, Porterfield was named as the with the team. new director of player health for the Los Angeles Dodgers, a newly created position to which he will Perhaps the two bring more than 30 years of experience working greatest accolades with current and future Hall of Famers, and also Porterfield received during this time with the Rays molding and adapting to the ever-changing role of were being named Baseball Operations Employee athletic trainers in Major League Baseball. of the Year in recognition of his remarkable work to help transform the team from worst to first and Porterfield began his career in baseball in 1987, just earning them a World Series appearance in 2008. one semester shy of completing his undergraduate Prior to that year, the Rays had never even had a degree at New Mexico State University, when the winning record.
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