About

Tailored Coaching for Developing Players

I want kids to understand that hard work and good information can close a lot of gaps. In my breakdown assessments, I talk directly to your player, not around them. I keep the feedback clear, positive, and specific, with a small number of things to focus on and drills that match what I actually see in their swing or throw. There is enough noise in youth baseball. My role is to be a steady voice that your kid can understand and trust.

I grew up chasing baseball across hot Texas summers, the kind where you played three or four games a day. I can still feel the mud and infield dirt caked on my arms and uniform after sliding into a base and popping up covered in dust. I was a year and a half younger, playing up on my older brother’s teams and often on the bubble for playing time. One season in club ball I barely touched the field. Around twelve, all the work I had been putting in finally caught up. The gap from playing up started to disappear, and from that point on my brother and I never really shared a club team again. I was never the biggest guy on the field, but on almost every team there was very little question about who worked the hardest. The only real exception was when my brother and I were on the same roster. He might have even worked harder than I did.

Along the way I had some incredible coaches and some truly bad ones, but I was almost always on great teams. I played with future pros in club ball and college, and I played against them too. I have been the kid who just wanted a chance, the player in the middle of the lineup on a big stage, and now I am the dad in the stands and the coach on the bucket. I have seen this game from a lot of angles. That is what I bring to Play Catch With Me. I know what it feels like to be the young kid trying to keep up, the undersized player who has to outwork everyone, and the parent who just wants to help without getting in the way.