Zach B.

I have been a Private Instructor for 5+ years and just transitioned to working in Division 1 College Baseball. Since 2018, I have worked with athletes from the Little League level all the way up to the professional level. In 2020, I completed Driveline Baseball's Pitch Design Certification which uses some of the leading technology in the industry toward developing pitchers. For the last 3 summers, I have served as the Pitching Coach for the Amsterdam Mohawks of the Perfect Game Collegiate League. We won the championship in 2 of the 3 seasons and have seen 3 players get drafted/signed to Major League Organizations.

I grew up locally, graduating from Shaker High School in 2011. My senior year included a Section 2 Championship as well as a State Runner-Up. I moved on to play my first two seasons of college baseball at Schenectady County Community College before moving on to finish my career at Barton College in Wilson, NC. Following my senior year at Barton I was named as a 1st Team All-Conference Starting Pitcher and graduated as the ERA Leader. I then got an opportunity to play Professional Baseball in the Empire Independent League and closed out the League Championship for Plattsburgh in 2017.

During your first session I will be running thru some basic evaluation and mechanical assessments to see what the specific athletes immediate needs are. This serves as the initial outline im determining what needs should be addressed first, then continue to tie them into their strengths to maximize what the athlete is capable of. Based on what patterns need attention, there will be a consistent set of drills geared toward attacking those certain deficits. As progress is made, I am a believer in a test and re-test method. This entails allowing the athlete to move free without a drill-based setting and seeing how the athlete is able to transfer the movement patterns, in most cases we will utilize video and the radar gun.