John Brophy

@jbrophybaseball.bsky.social

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Tampa, FL based minor league photographer and reporter 📸: Sony 𝜶7 II • Canon 70D Hablo español • 🇨🇺 & 🇮🇪 CT ➡️ FL https://linktr.ee/jbrophybaseball

A screenshot of Apple Playground (an app in beta) showing an AI generated image of a New York Yankees baseball player with facial hair, despite asking for a baseball player without facial hair
An enthusiastic orange and white chonky flamepoint cat stares at the camera.
TAMPA TARPONS The Tarpons will play their 2025 home games on the grounds of the GMS Field complex at "Field 2." This field is adjacent to the first base side of the stadium, next to Dale Mabry Highway. Throughout 2024, this field was frequently utilized by community stakeholders and served as home to the Hillsborough Community College Hawks baseball team. • As a result of the Tarpons playing official minor games at "Field 2," the Rays will incur costs associated with bringing the field up to minor league game standard, including (but not limited to) those for the installation of lights, improvements to the dugouts, and the installation of padding on walls surrounding the playing field. • Fans will be able to enjoy Tarpons games from preexisting bleachers on the first-base side of the field. Tarpons games will be ticketed at a nominal charge with general admission seating available on a first come, first served basis. Parking will be available in the lot adjacent to the main stadium. • A few select Tarpons games may be played in the main stadium, including potential postseason games. • Neither Tarpons home games nor any other community games will take place on "Field 2" at the same time as Rays home games. • Tarpons players are tentatively scheduled to utilize the facilities at the Himes Minor League Complex (on the east side of Dale Mabry, just south of Raymond James Stadium) throughout their regular season for training, workouts, dressing and rehabbing. They will not practic
A photo of Juan Soto throwing a ball around in the outfield of Steinbrenner Field during Spring Training
A large, 26-lb orange flamepoint cat (his name is Plop) stands on his tippy toes to look up to the surface of a desk for treats, but there's nothing there
This bobblehead portrays Aaron Judge wearing his white gameday uniform and ice skates in an action pose, ready to deck the halls with team spirit. The thematic skating rink backdrop and the spinning top of the base rotates as well.
A spam text message with the text “Are you going there today?”
A panorama of George M Steinbrenner Field in 2014 with Aaron Judge at bat for the Tampa Yankees
A YouTube thumbnail of Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, Carlos Narvaez and Andres Chaparro in Tarpons uniforms. A Tarpons logo has an arrow pointing to the Yankees' interlocking NY logo, and the players' names point to the images of the players. All of this is shown above a photo of the exterior of Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, FL.
This is a 480p video (because I hit a 50 MB limit) of Anthony Volpe, Austin Wells, Andres Chaparro and Carlos Narvaez with the Low-A Tampa Tarpons in 2021. They all went on to play in the Major Leagues during the 2023 and/or 2024 seasons.
Grampa Simpson talking to a group of kids on a hill in a still from "The Simpsons"
Yankees catcher prospect J.C. Escarra at bat for the Aguilas Cibaenas in a LIDOM game.
Juan Soto holding a bat behind his neck and over his shoulders on photo day during Yankees Spring Training in February 2024
A tortie cat “hiding” behind the chrome leg of a chair
This is a screenshot of an English language post (the first of this thread) and a Spanish language post (the second of this thread).