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BASEBALL IS BACK ⚾️ Check out your favorite team's head athletic trainer for the 2025 season and head over to pbats.com/bios to read more about the full athletic training staffs for each @MLB club. Good luck to all!

Congratulations to our PBATS members selected to provide athletic training coverage for the 2026 MLB All-Star Game in Philadelphia! 🔹 Paul Buchheit (@Phillies) 🔹 Yosuke Nakajima (@Dodgers) 🔹 Jeff Collins (@Athletics) 🔹 Eric Munson (@Angels) A well-deserved honor representing the best in professional baseball sports medicine. 👏 #MLBAllStar #PBATS #AthleticTraining #SportsMedicine

Cardiac screening in professional sports is more important than most people realize — and it's more complex than a standard EKG. Episode 132 of Inside Athletic Training features Joe Rogowski, founder of Athletic Heart and Matthew Martinez, a leading sports cardiologist. They cover why cardiac care at the elite level has historically been inconsistent, how Athletic Heart is working with athletic trainers and team physicians to raise the standard, and what a more comprehensive approach to heart health looks like for professional athletes. A conversation worth hearing for anyone working in sports medicine, athletic training, or player health. 🎧 Listen to Episode 132: apple.co/4pcbosE

Busy week for the PLAY Campaign with events with the @astros, @Cubs, and @Brewers! Check out a recap here: bit.ly/4vN0PPA

Tommy John surgeries continue to rise across all levels of baseball—but why? In this episode of The Research Rundown, we bring together an all-star panel of experts to discuss one of the most pressing issues in sports medicine today: the Tommy John epidemic. Join Dr. Michael T. Freehill, Dr. Steven B. Cohen, Brian Schulman, Paul Buchheit, and Joe Rauch as they examine the latest research, challenge common assumptions, and explore what athletic trainers, physicians, coaches, and organizations can do to better protect throwing athletes. Topics include: ⚾ Trends driving the rise in UCL injuries ⚾ Youth baseball and early specialization ⚾ Workload management and prevention strategies ⚾ What the research tells us—and what it doesn’t ⚾ The future of elbow injury prevention Listen here: apple.co/4vulNCb

The @Pirates head athletic trainer Luke Novosel is leading a young staff in #Pittsburgh and working every day in his dream job. Read more here via @TribLIVE: bit.ly/4fKJhy6

Interesting insight from the @Rockies athletic training staff, as told by the team at @PurpleRow. Read more here: bit.ly/4nUHgkU

New episode of the Inside Athletic Training podcast is live!🎙️ @NATA1950 Hall of Famer Dr. Jeff Konin joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on cannabis in sports medicine, athletic performance, recovery, and what athletic trainers need to know as the landscape continues to evolve. Listen here: apple.co/4tRmfdc #PBATS #SportsMedicine #AthleticTraining #MLB

New episode of the Inside Athletic Training podcast is live!🎙️ @NATA1950 Hall of Famer Dr. Jeff Konin joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on cannabis in sports medicine, athletic performance, recovery, and what athletic trainers need to know as the landscape continues to evolve. Listen here: apple.co/4tRmfdc #PBATS #SportsMedicine #AthleticTraining #MLB

New episode of the Inside Athletic Training podcast is live!🎙️ @NATA1950 Hall of Famer Dr. Jeff Konin joins us for a wide-ranging conversation on cannabis in sports medicine, athletic performance, recovery, and what athletic trainers need to know as the landscape continues to evolve. Listen here: apple.co/4tRmfdc #PBATS #SportsMedicine #AthleticTraining #MLB

A huge congratulations to the @Nationals Josiah Gray (@JoJoGray40_) on winning the grand prize for the 2026 Rolex Raffle. All proceeds benefit the Jimmy Warfield and Bill Buhler PBATS Educational Scholarships, along with additional conference scholarships that provide financial support to athletic training students and early-career professionals pursuing opportunities in professional baseball. Read more here: bit.ly/4cYp4lq

Today, PBATS is supporting the fifth annual National Fentanyl Awareness Day, along with @MLB, @MLB_PR, @SongforCharlie, and the MLB Team Physicians Association. 70% of teen drug deaths involve fentanyl, yet 45% of teens are unaware that fentanyl is used to make counterfeit pills. To spread awareness, tonight at Camden Yards the @Orioles will host a recognition of National Fentanyl Awareness Day. Please visit songforcharlie.org and fentanylawarenessday.org to learn more about the fight against fentanyl.

Incredible to partner with such amazing organizations to support the fifth annual National Fentanyl Awareness Day.

Today @MLB is supporting the fifth annual National Fentanyl Awareness Day. 70% of teen drug deaths involve fentanyl, yet 45% of teens are unaware that fentanyl is used to make counterfeit pills. Please visit songforcharlie.org and fentanylawarenessday.org to learn more about the fight against fentanyl. Tonight at Camden Yards, the @Orioles will host a recognition of National Fentanyl Awareness Day in partnership with @SongforCharlie, @LtGovMiller, @PBATS, and the MLB Team Physicians Association.

As we approach Equal Pay Day, PBATS wants to highlight this awesome achievement from the @Orioles athletic training staff, as a pair of O's athletic training form an all-women staff for Spring Breakout. "Now, just knowing that it’s becoming normalized, more women should be willing to get in it and wanting to get in it. There is space for them here, and they need to know that," Hunt said. "They need to take up space. Not just in athletic training, but in all fields -- coaching, strength and conditioning, everything." atmlb.com/4sIrR95

🚨 NEW PODCAST EPISODE 🚨 In our latest episode, we’re joined by Kevin Pillifant, Minor League Medical Coordinator for the Chicago White Sox, who helps oversee the coordination of medical care across the organization’s minor league system. Great conversation on the evolving role of the athletic trainer and what it takes to support athletes across a professional baseball system. 🍎 Apple: apple.co/4upJRpT 🟢 Spotify: bit.ly/4s6r8y6

Will Carroll (@injuryexpert), author of Under the Knife, joins Inside Athletic Training to break down Baseball’s Billion Dollar Bleed 💰⚾️ We dive into: • The true financial cost of injuries in MLB • UCL trends and workload realities • What today’s injury data says about the future of sports medicine • Where medicine, media, and performance collide If you care about what’s really happening behind the injury report — this one’s for you. Listen here: apple.co/4aDPMi7

Tyler Brooks (@Pirates asst. AT) joins us to talk about his path to the big leagues, how working in the DR shaped his approach to sports medicine, and what it's really like on a big league athletic training staff. 40 minutes of real talk from the field. Listen now here: apple.co/4rTpUWI #AthleticTraining #MLB

🎙️ New Episode | PBATS Inside Athletic Training Podcast We’re excited to welcome Dr. Glenn Fleisig — one of the most influential scientists in baseball biomechanics and sports medicine — to the Inside Athletic Training Podcast. A longtime leader at the American Sports Medicine Institute (ASMI), Dr. Fleisig has spent decades shaping how we understand pitching mechanics, injury risk, and player health at every level of the game. In this episode, we dive into his career journey, how biomechanics has evolved in baseball, the latest research impacting UCL injuries and throwing programs, Major League Baseball (MLB) Pitch Smart guidelines for youth athletes, and what these insights mean for MLB athletic trainers and sports medicine teams moving forward. 🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts or at the links below: 🍎 apple.co/46rTx8X 🟢 bit.ly/4ah7sjC