Last night, Walt Weiss told the assorted Braves media that catcher Sean Murphy would be heading on a rehab assignment as soon as Friday. While we knew that Friday would be the day, we didn’t know which of the four Braves minor league teams that Murphy would be playing for as he makes his final preparations to return to Atlanta’s squad following offseason hip labrum surgery.
We now have an answer to that. Per a press release from the Braves and the Gwinnett Stripers, Sean Murphy will be playing at Gwinnett Field
this Friday as the Stripers take on the Nashville Sounds from the Milwaukee Brewers organization.
Here’s an excerpt from the Stripers’ press relase on the matter:
Murphy, on Atlanta’s 10-day injured list (right hip labrum repair), is scheduled to play in Gwinnett’s 7:05 p.m. game that night vs. Nashville at Gwinnett Field.
The 31-year-old Murphy will begin his third career rehab assignment with the Stripers. He played in four games with the club in 2024 while out with a strained left oblique, and three games in 2025 while working his way back from a left ribcage fracture. In seven career games with Gwinnett, he’s batting .250 (7-for-28) with one double, three home runs, six RBIs, and an .883 OPS.
In case you’re interested in watching or keeping track with the game, you can watch on Bally Sports Live (link here) and you can listen on My Country 993 WCON-FM (link here). We still don’t know the exact date of Sean Murphy’s return to the Braves but as long as this is happening, a return is certainly imminent. We’ll see what happens.
