Rome Braves

• Location: Rome, GA
• League: South Atlantic League 2003-2019; High-A East 2021; South Atlantic League 2022-2023
• Affiliation: Atlanta Braves 2003-2023
• Ballpark: State Mutual Stadium

Team History

The Rome Braves, of the High-A South Atlantic League and briefly in High-A East, play on a diamond that used to mimic that of their parent club. The Atlanta Braves farmhands play their home games at AdventHealth Stadium in Rome, GA.

Although Advent's name has changed since it debuted as State Mutual Stadium, the end of the mimicking did not happen because of any changes to it. The Rome ballpark's field was laid out to mirror [[Atlanta, GA|Atlanta's Turner Field - which the big Braves left for a new suburban park after the 2016 campaign.

R-Braves' history began when the Macon Braves moved to Rome after the 2002 season. In 2003, the R-Braves won the league title in their inaugural campaign.

The Braves' top three farm clubs were all parent-owned when MLB's 2021 Minor League Reorganization raised the R-Braves one level - and all four remaining Atlanta farm teams are among those Endeavor Group Holdings acquired in late 2021 and put under its newly created Diamond Baseball Holdings subsidiary.[1] Endeavor, which was created in a merger of two talent agencies, also owns Ultimate Fighting Championship and Miss Universe. However, after the MLB Players Association threatened to block Endeavor talent agents from representing professional baseball players on the grounds that a talent agency owning baseball teams is a conflict of interest, Endeavor sold DBH to the equity firm Silver Lake Partners - a major investor in Endeavor.

In August 2023, the Rome Professional Baseball club announced its intent to rebrand and move away from the Braves moniker. In November the new name Rome Emperors was announced.

Year-by-Year Record

Year	Record	Finish	Manager	Playoffs	Hitting coach	Pitching coach	Coach
2003	78-61	3rd	Rocket Wheeler	League Champs	Bobby Moore	Kent Willis
2004	70-70	7th (t)	Rocket Wheeler		Bobby Moore	Kent Willis
2005	72-65	5th	Rocket Wheeler		Bobby Moore	Jim Czajkowski
2006	71-68	8th	Randy Ingle	Lost in 1st round	Bobby Moore	Jim Czajkowski	Billy Nicholson
2007	66-74	11th	Randy Ingle		Bobby Moore	Doug Henry	Billy Nicholson
2008	56-81	14th	Randy Ingle		Bobby Moore	Jim Czajkowski	Billy Nicholson
2009	66-73	11th	Randy Ingle		Bobby Moore	Jim Czajkowski
2010	59-80	13th	Randy Ingle		Bobby Moore	Jim Czajkowski
2011	60-80	11th	Matt Walbeck (28-56) / Rick Albert (32-24)		Carlos Méndez	Derrick Lewis
2012	62-76	10th (t)	Randy Ingle	Lost in 1st round	Carlos Méndez	Derrick Lewis
2013	73-66	7th	Randy Ingle		Bobby Moore	Derrick Lewis	Jose Mota
2014	56-84	12th	Jonathan Schuerholz		Bobby Moore	Gabriel Luckert	Nestor Perez Tim Straus
2015	58-82	13th	Randy Ingle		Bobby Moore	Gabriel Luckert	Nestor Perez Tim Straus
2016	70-69	9th	Randy Ingle	League Champs	Bobby Moore	Dan Meyer	Jose Yepez
2017	74-65	5th	Randy Ingle		Bobby Moore	Dan Meyer	Anthony Nunez
2018	71-65	5th	Rocket Wheeler	Lost in 1st round	Bobby Moore	Dan Meyer	Anthony Nunez
2019	65-74	9th	Matt Tuiasosopo		Bobby Moore	Kanekoa Texeira	Wigberto Nevarez
2020	Season cancelled
2021	56-60	6th	Kanekoa Texeira		Danny Santiesteban	Bo Henning	Angel Flores, Bobby Moore
2022	74-54	3rd	Kanekoa Texeira	Lost in 1st round	Danny Santiesteban	Wes McGuire	Bobby Moore
2023	64-68	8th	Angel Flores		Garrett Wilkinson	Mike Steed	Bobby Moore

External Link

Official Home of the Rome Braves

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