Josh Boggs

From Playing to Coaching: The Transition Is Yours To Make

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By Kyle Rogers, DS Power Training

I was watching the Radford and Auburn game with my buddy who went to Radford and is now an infielder in the Baltimore Orioles organization and one of the Radford base-runners got a good dirt ball read and took second base and my friend and I looked at each other and said, “Man I miss college baseball.”

It was so funny to me how something so small such as a good dirt ball read could bring back so many emotions and make me miss being a college baseball player. I was a right-handed pitcher at a NCAA Division II school in North Carolina called Belmont Abbey. I had a pretty successful college career and probably could have continued playing in an independent league somewhere, but I was happy with the way my baseball career had gone so I decided to hang up my cleats and trade them in for some trainers and a fungo and I could not be happier with my decision. read more

The Transition To College Baseball

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Jason Euler, Pitcher at EIU

High School, Juco, and D1 Baseball Transitions

At an early age I decided I wanted to play college baseball and made that my goal day in and day out. As I progressed, I looked at baseball like a funnel. In the early little league years there are a lot of kids playing the sport, but each year a few funnel out. I know I could name a number of kids that never made it to high school baseball that I played with at younger ages. After high school, that funnel really begins to start narrowing down, and fast. While there are many universities out there, not everyone goes on to play college baseball especially at the higher collegiate levels. read more

Your New Mechanics

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By Chad Rhoades

Mechanics will not get you there.

We can all agree that efficient mechanics and a consistent delivery are essential in reaching ones peak performance and eventual level of success, but is it the most important thing?

With a quick glance of all the MLB pitchers, we can see their own style shine through. They all look significantly different with their deliveries, yet so similar. Teaching and coaching mechanics has been a monotonous journey for me. Don’t get me wrong, I love adapting each pitchers own unique individualistic style to pitching, but it is still limited. Just like MLB pitchers that look so different, if you break it down to the fundamentals, they all get to certain points in their mechanics that every pitcher has to get to in order to be efficient with their body. Blah, blah, biometric blah. What makes a man, much less a pitcher, is his thoughts. read more

KNOWING YOURSELF

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By Brian Lovett, Johnson University Pitching Coach

When I address my guys for the first time one of the topics we cover is what it truly means to know yourself and one of the major factors of that is being completely honest with yourself. The worst lies you can tell are the ones you tell yourself! I am going to cover the eleven topics I discuss with my guys and expect them to fully understand. I ask these questions and rely on them to give me an honest assessment. It is step one in learning how they see themselves. As time goes on I will reflect on their answers and will revisit them and possibly make adjustments to them with some feedback. read more