Fall Baseball skills and high performance program

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Program Overview

The Grind Academy’s 8-Week Fall Baseball Skills & High Performance Program is an intensive baseball development program for athletes ages 11–14 and 15–18 looking to improve their skills, strength, athleticism, and overall performance.

Athletes train three days per week through a combination of professional baseball instruction, data-driven skill development, metric tracking, strength and conditioning, and recovery.

Monday and Friday focus on offensive and defensive development, while Wednesdays include pitching, offense, pitch design, and weekly bullpen work. The performance training program progresses throughout the eight weeks, developing strength, speed, agility, explosiveness, rotational power, and movement quality specifically for baseball athletes.

September 28 – November 20
Monday, Wednesday & Friday

5:30–7:00 PM — Baseball Skill Development
7:00–8:00 PM — Strength & Conditioning
8:00–9:00 PM — Recovery

Program Includes:

  • Data-Driven Baseball Development

  • Metric Tracking

  • Offensive & Defensive Skill Development

  • Pitch Design & Weekly Bullpens

  • Baseball-Specific Strength & Conditioning

  • Speed, Agility & Explosive Power Development

  • Professional Coaching

  • Dedicated Recovery

$4,800 Program Value
$1,400 Full 8-Week Program
Monthly Options Available

Registration is now open. Space is limited to maintain a high-quality training environment and provide athletes with individualized coaching and feedback.

PROGRAM HELD AT:
The Grind Academy: Monday // Wednesday // Friday

Times: 5:30 PM - 9 PM

WHO IS THIS FOR?:

While we’ve set a general guideline starting at age 11, placement is not determined strictly by age. More importantly, we look at each athlete’s overall readiness—physically, cognitively, and emotionally—to ensure they can both benefit from and contribute to the training environment.

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Meet the Coaches

  • Mikey York

    PITCHING INSTRUCTOR

    -2016-2023 professional baseball player

    -2016 5th round draft pick Tampa Bay Rays

    -2017 New York-Penn League All-Star

    -2019 Florida State League All-Star

    -Rapsodo Certified Coach

  • ALEX LONTAYO

    PITCHING COORDINATOR

    Alex is presently, the Western Regional Coordinator of Scouting for the Chicago Cubs, where he’s been employed for 13 years. As a former professional pitcher (7 seasons reaching AAA) and a D1 student-athlete at Tulane University, where he earned a degree in Sports Management and a Minor in Business in 1998, Alex has extensive experience in managing fast-paced environments. From co-founding a sports-focused startup company, to managing accounts for the largest environmental company in the world, Alex’s experience and education offer a unique work history built upon the work ethic and team-oriented attitude that made him a professional athlete with some of the most respected MLB teams in the game.

  • Trent bixby

    HITTING and INFIELD INSTRUCTOR

    Trent Bixby is a former collegiate baseball player and current coach with a passion for developing athletes both on and off the field.

    As a coach, Trent is committed to helping players maximize their potential while building confidence and a love for the game. Trent brings both real-world experience and a competitive edge to every training session.

PROGRAM
GOAL

1. Objective Data Collection & Evaluation

Purpose: Establish baselines, individualize training, and track meaningful performance changes.

  • Movement quality and competency screening

  • OVR Performance Smart Speed/ Force Decks (sprinting performance and applied characteristics)

  • Output Sports VBT (applied tracking of velocity metrics)

  • HitTrax/Rapsodo (hitting/pitching analytics)

  • InBody Composition Analysis

2. Speed, Power and Strength Development

Purpose: Programming designed to drive specific adaptations that enhance all facets of performance.

  • Movement efficiency, joint integrity, elasticity and neuromuscular preparedness

  • Applied performance characteristics (rate of force/velocity development)

  • Calculated progressions and intentional workloads

3. Position-Specific Skill Development

Purpose: Managed collaboration of skill work and strength training

  • Full-size indoor infield, 12 cages with data-collection, and open throwing space

4. Live Competitive Gameplay

Purpose: Controlled setting Live At-Bats

  • Scheduled competitive game-play with weekly workload progression

5. Recovery & Workload Management

Purpose: Support adaptation, reduce injury risk, and sustain high-quality performance.

  • Passive modalities such as sauna, cold plunge, red light therapy, and compression.

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