The Painting Corners Team

Aidan Smith Painting Corners Founder MLB

Aidan Smith

Painting Corners Founder and content creator. Relocated from Vermont and now lives in Seattle not too far from T-Mobile Park. I like mock trades, player profiles, and thinking like a front office executive. My favorite experience in baseball media so far was covering the 2024 draft at T-Mobile and interviewing both Scott Hunter (Director of Amateur Scouting) and Jurrangelo Cijntje (ambidextrous 1st round pitcher). In my free time, you can find me watching MLB, playing in our slow pitch softball league, or wandering the city with my wife, Celena.

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John Crowley

Software engineer and poet with a deep love for baseball. Growing up a Sox fan with my dad in Vermont, I’m now based below i-10, catching as many Ragin’ Cajuns’ home games as I can, rooting for the Stros and any big time pitching prospects trying to break into the MLB. I love the art of pitching, and the rhythm of the game. God is in it all.

A man with a yellow boston bruins hat standing in front of a body of water with mountains in the background. Ryan Smith Painting Corners Operations Manager MLB.

Ryan Smith

I'm a New England native and lifelong Boston Red Sox fan. My favorite baseball memory is watching the Sox come back from down 3-0 in a historic ALCS against the Yankees and going on to win the World Series in 2004. I love Fenway of course, but also enjoy visiting other ballparks, most recently Citizens Bank Park, Oracle Park, and Wrigley Field. I live with my amazing wife Jamie in Boston.

Celena OBrien Painting Corners Baseball Co-Founder

Celena O’Brien

Born and raised Vermonter (surprise, surprise to those who’ve read this far). I’ve always been a baseball fan thanks to my dad. Still holding out hope that I’ll meet everyone’s childhood hero, the Captain, Derek Jeter. Now based in Seattle, my husband Aidan and I have reached an accord in our support for the Seattle Mariners.