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MEDICAL & PERFORMANCE STAFF

MIKE FROSTAD Assistant Athletic Trainer FRONT OFFICE
• Mike Frostad is in his fourth season with the Braves • In 2004 and 2005, he
as the club’s assistant athletic trainer...He joined the won the Athletic Trainer
organization prior to the 2018 season. of the Year Award for
• Before his time with Atlanta, he spent 22 seasons with the Florida State League
the Toronto Blue Jays, including six as the team’s while with Single-A MANAGER & STAFF
assistant athletic trainer. Dunedin...In 2005, he
was also the recipient of the Minor League Athletic
• Frostad started his baseball career in 1996 with the Trainer of the Year Award.
Single-A St. Catharines Stompers...He also worked
for rookie-level Medicine Hat (1997-98), Single-A • During the off-season, Frostad, 48, resides in Redcliff,
Hagerstown (1999-2000) and Single-A Dunedin (2001- Alberta with his wife, Candice.
05).
• With the Blue Jays, he was named minor league
medical coordinator in 2005, a position he held until PLAYER BIOS
2010, when he was appointed to Toronto as the
assistant athletic trainer.
• Frostad returned to the role of medical coordinator for
the 2011 and 2012 seasons before reassuming his post
as Toronto’s assistant athletic trainer in 2013. SEASON IN REVIEW

jeff stevenson Assistant Athletic Trainer
• The 2021 season marks Jeff Stevenson’s third with the • He began his Royals
Braves organization, including his first on the major- tenure in 1992... PLAYER DEVELOPMENT
league staff as assistant athletic trainier. In 1999, he was
• Stevenson was the club’s COVID-19 compliance honored as the Dick
officer for the 2020 season...He joined the organization Howser Award winner
in 2019 as the assistant minor league medical for his outstanding
coordinator, where he worked out of the club’s spring contributions to the player development department.
training complex in Florida. • Stevenson was promoted to the Royals’ major-league
• Previously, Stevenson was with the Toronto Blue staff as assistant athletic trainer for the 2008 and 2009
Jays for eight seasons, 2011-18...He was a rehab seasons. BRAVES HISTORY
coordinator for three seasons, a minor league medical • The Michigan native, Stevenson earned his degree in
coordinator for three seasons and the major-league athletic training from Indiana University.
assistant athletic trainer for two seasons. • Stevenson, 51, and his wife, Christy, reside in Palm
• Stevenson came to Toronto from the Kansas City Harbor, Fla...He has three children, Brennan, Michael
Royals, where he spent 18 seasons...He served the and Meg.
majority of that time in the minor leagues, including
nine with Triple-A Omaha...He was named the Pacific OPPONENTS
Coast League Athletic Trainer of the Year in 2005.

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