Braves prospect Patrick Clohisy already running wild in Fall League

PEORIA, Ariz. – Wherever Patrick Clohisy has laced up a pair of cleats, he’s used them to wreak havoc on the basepaths.

He did it during his time on the Missouri high school scene. He did it during two seasons at his hometown Saint Louis University. And he especially did it during his first full season in pro ball between High-A Rome and Double-A Columbus, where he swiped 79 bags combined to rank third in the Minors in 2025. Dating back to 2016, he’s one of just eight players to reach that mark, putting the outfielder in rare company.

It’s a small sample size, but that stolen-base prowess has carried over to Clohisy’s tenure with the Glendale Desert Dogs in the Arizona Fall League. Through four games, he's swiped a league-best six bags without being caught. It’s early, but it’s worth noting that Caleb Durbin set the single-season Fall League stolen-base record last year with 29 in just 24 games. Clohisy is running at a similar rate.

“I learned a lot through talking to coaches and just kind of picking their minds,” Clohisy said. “Just trusting myself – trusting the reads, trusting my speed and really not holding back. Always trying to be aggressive and never taking my foot off the gas.”

Despite his aggressiveness on the basepaths, Clohisy’s all-gas/no-brakes style is maybe best personified by his daredevil nature on the outfield grass. He developed something of a reputation this season for going airborne to take away hits, complete with a full-length Superman impression for Columbus in September.

While Clohisy was quick to point out that snag as his favorite of 2025, it was his Rome debut on Sept. 3, 2024, that takes the cake. He called it the "best catch I’ve ever made."

“I think it's one of the best parts of my game and it's something I work on every day, and I do take pride in it, stealing outs,” Clohisy said. “It adds up in the game, and then when hopefully you get the opportunity to keep moving up, you know that's gonna matter when you're out there.”

But it hasn’t been all stolen bases and leaping catches for the Braves’ 11th-round pick from the 2024 Draft. The 23-year-old garnered valuable reps this spring by getting into a handful of Grapefruit League contests as a late-game replacement, the most memorable being March 19 against the Yankees.

Growing up in St. Louis (and still living there in the offseason), Clohisy knows all about Luke Weaver. Once a prized first-round prospect in the Cardinals’ system Weaver has carved out a 10-year career in the bigs. But the pinnacle of his journey came last October as he helped lead the Yankees to an American League pennant while emerging as one of the Majors’ premier late-inning arms.

Weaver, like all big leaguers during Spring Training, just wanted to get work in. But for Clohisy, their meeting to lead off the eighth inning that night meant much more.

“It was cool. I obviously knew who he was,” Clohisy said of Weaver. “I mean, I was watching the World Series at home, watching him pitch in it, so walking up to the plate, that's kind of in the back of your mind. He gave me a first pitch down the middle and I jumped all over it. That was fun, definitely one of the best memories [of my career] so far.”

Grapefruit League stats might not count toward any official ledger, but Clohisy hopes that his first homer while donning an Atlanta uniform is a harbinger of things to come. After spending the first four months of the season at High-A, he earned his first bump to Double-A and saw his average jump from .247 to .270, posting 13 multihit games for the Clingstones.

While there are many players in the Fall League looking to make up for lost time from the regular season, that’s not the case for Clohisy. He appeared in 131 regular-season contests across both levels. Tired? Nope. Ready to make an impression for 2026 and beyond? Unquestionably.

The Braves didn’t send him to Arizona with any set plan of barometers to reach, instead wanting him to focus on his swing and tapping into some extra-base impact with a higher frequency, or as Clohisy calls it, “continuing to build a strong foundation.”