Adam Liberatore achieved his dream of playing Major League Baseball in 2015. Today, Adam has a new dream of helping young athletes improve their baseball skills at the Liberatore Baseball Club.
Following his junior year at Quigley Catholic High School, Adam transferred to Blackhawk. As a senior at Blackhawk under Beaver County Sports Hall of Fame coach Bob Amalia, Adam lettered in baseball and was named WPIAL All-Star and first-team All-Section.

In 2005, Adam earned a baseball scholarship to Tennessee Technological University, where he majored in electrical engineering. In summer 2008 in the Valley Baseball League, Adam held batters to a .170 average on his way to a 6-1 record and a Pitcher of the Year award. In 2009, Adam had a 2-0 record for Tennessee Tech and gave up no earned runs across 17 innings, and shared Ohio Valley Conference Pitcher of the Week honors, when he suffered a season-ending elbow injury. In his redshirt senior season, Adam compiled 74 strikeouts across 74.2 innings, helping the Golden Eagles to a regular season title in the Ohio Valley Conference.

Left-handed Adam was drafted in the 21st round by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 2010 Major League Baseball June amateur draft. Over the next few years, he played for minor league teams in Hudson Valley NY, Charlotte NC, Durham NC, Montgomery AL, and Oklahoma City OK. After the 2013 season, Adam pitched for the Estrellas Orientales in the Dominican Winter League, and he was invited to the Rays' spring training in 2014. That year, with Durham, Adam had a 1.66 earned run average (ERA) in his 65.0 innings and was named the Rays' Minor League Reliever of the Year.

In November 2014, the Los Angeles Dodgers traded for Adam, and, on April 17, 2015, he debuted with the Dodgers, retiring all three hitters in the ninth inning of a win against the Colorado Rockies. Adam finished his 2015 season with the Dodgers pitching 29.2 innings across 39 appearances.

Over the next three seasons, Adam split time between the LA Dodgers and minor league teams in Oklahoma City OK. In 2016, he set a Dodgers record with 28 consecutive scoreless appearances. Adam spent most of 2017 on the disabled list with a left arm injury. For the Dodgers in 2018, he pitched 13.0 innings across 17 appearances and combined with three other pitchers for a no-hitter against the San Diego Padres. Over his Major League career, Adam pitched 88.2 innings across 118 games, with a 6-5 record, a 3.55 ERA, and a 1.0 WAR. In the minors, Adam pitched 376.2 innings across 256 games, with a 25-19 record, and a 2.84 ERA.

Adam has a four-year-old daughter Leah, lives in Beaver Falls, and operates the Liberatore Baseball Club to help train the next generation of baseball players.

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