To the victors go the spoils, and on Monday the 2016 South Atlantic League Champion Rome players got their title rings in a ceremony at Champion Stadium at the Atlanta Braves spring training complex in Orlando.
Rome, led by perhaps the best rotation in all of Minor League Baseball last season, got off to a slow start, but got red-hot down the stretch and brought home the hardware for the team’s second-ever championship since moving from Macon to Rome in 2003.
Names like Touki Toussaint, Kolby Allard, Max Fried, Patrick Weigel, Mike Soroka and Matt Custred saw time on the mound for Rome last season, and got better as the year went on.