About Coach Pat

Here's some info about Coach Pat, the creator of The Way of Baseball

16 years of Pro Baseball
Never used performance enhancing drugs
Never missed a game due to injury
10 of the 16 years of pro ball played Winter Ball - (Australia & Venezuela)
Over 2500 innings in pro baseball
RDRBI Certified Pitching Coach
Certified Foundation Fitness trainer
Trained Rinku Singh & Dinesh Patel - Indian-born pitchers who signed with Pittsburgh Pirates. They had never heard of baseball and signed a pro contract after 7 months training.
2008 Coach of the Irish National Team
2009 Coach of the Czech National Team
2009 Coach of Draci Brno of the Czech Extraliga

Awards and honors

1988 Daily Breeze South Bay Player of the Year
1990 All-State Junior College Player (Harbor College)
School Record most career wins - L.A. Harbor College (24)
1992 National Championship Game winning pitcher - Pepperdine vs. Cal State Fullerton
1st Team Division 1 All-American 1992 Pepperdine
College World Series All-Decade team 1990s
7th Round Draft Pick 1992 Detroit Tigers
Major League Debut June 15, 1995
Pitcher of the Game, 1995 Triple-A All-Star game
5 Championship rings

Coaching Style

Keep things as simple as possible
Prepare all around competitive baseball players
Teach the correct baseball fundamentals
Emphasize doing the little things right
Discover the best style to teach each player - not all players learn at the same speed or with the same methods and it's my job to find out the best way to teach you.
Wherever your skill level, make you a better player today than you were yesterday
Build character on and off the field

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