Ron Porterfield

Ron Porterfield is an American Major League Baseball athletic trainer. He has been the head athletic trainer for the Tampa Bay Rays since 2006. and a 1988 graduate of New Mexico State University. Former Rays outfielder Rocco Baldelli, who was unable to play for most of 2007 and 2008 due to a mysterious ailment that was originally thought to be life-threatening and was later diagnosed as channelopathy, said his playing career, which he described as having hit "rock bottom," might never have resumed if not for Porterfield's time and dedication in pursuing a proper diagnosis and treatment. By the time Baldelli left the Rays as a free agent during the 2008–09 offseason, Porterfield had amassed a 3,000-page medical file on Baldelli, which Porterfield forwarded to Baldelli's new team, the Boston Red Sox.

Porterfield shared "Major League Athletic Training Staff of the Year" honors in both 2005 and 2009.

Personal life Porterfield resides in Parrish, Florida, with his wife and two children.