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Greg Burke MLB Pitcher
"You Go Pro Baseball is an asset to any baseball player who wants to better their game."
Omir Santos MLB Catcher
"I'm happy to be a part of You Go Pro Baseball."
Jason Grilli MLB Pitcher
"YouGoProBaseball is a great website"
This website was created through the ideas and philosophies of myself and talking to many different people such as my teammates, other coaches, players, instructors, and websites. That's why you may find more than one perspective on any given idea. This gives you the freedom to pick and choose what works for you and throw the rest away! Let me tell you a little about myself and the creation of this website...
Welcome to You Go Pro Baseball .com!
This website is a resource to help baseball players of all ages better themselves. Our main goal is to help our student baseball players go on to play at the college and professional levels by offering the most up to date and proven baseball methods. On this website you will get the chance to interact with current professionals that can offer ideas, philosophies, and techniques that transform your game and put you head and heels above the competition. Coaches can also learn some techniques to help aid in the development of their teams.
My name is John Madden and I am the creator of YouGoProBaseball.com. I finished my 2008 season in Triple A for the Padres. In December 2008 the New York Mets purchased my contract in the Triple A phase of the Rule 5 Draft. For the last eight years I have been giving lessons to young baseball players in my neighborhood. I started out doing it just to make some extra cash while I was in college but as the years went on I realized that what I had to say actually helped these kids improve. This excited and motivated me to start compiling all the information that I had learned in my baseball experience (from t-ball to now) so that I could pass on this information to my players. I then started thinking about my journey. I thought about how it was trying to make my highschool team. I thought about the hard process of finding a college that I liked and trying to get some scholarship money from them. I thought about my transfer from Junior College to a 4 year institution and then I thought about the Major League draft process and how my agent helped me through it. I was beginning to realize how much experience I had to offer to young baseball players who would soon be going through this same process. This is when and why the website began production.
A few of my professional baseball friends were also excited when I told them about what I was doing. In this website you will find tips that would excite any baseball player and help all of us to strive through this process that we call growing as a baseball player. It starts by providing you with tons of information on everything you need to know to train and act like a professional. It aslo offers some great ideas on how to promote yourself to coaches and scouts, get the most scholarship money or financial aid possible, and other answers to the many questions that you will face on your journey.
The coaches, staff, and anyone else who offers to help from time to time here at YouGoProBaseball.com understand this journey because they have done it themselves. Now they are here to help YOU GO PRO. The good thing about this whole site is that because we have many different professional players providing input and describing personal experiences, you will not only get one philosophy. Instead you will be encouraged to interact, communicate, and exchange ideas to help make our site the most informative and helpful tool for young baseball players on the road to success. Joining our forum and blog is a good way to start communicating and exchanging ideas. From there you can check out everything else the site has to offer and begin to develop your own philosophy that will help pave that road you are on.
Again, please feel free to contact us with any questions. Don't forget to join the forum to recieve new information and stay connected daily. Thank you for checking out the site and I hope it helps in creating your own journey and memories!
Name: John Madden
Position: rhp
Hometown: Poinciana FL
High School: Poinciana HS
Junior College: Seminole Community
College
4 Year College: Auburn University
Draft Status: 8th Round Pick - San
Diego Padres
Years Pro Experience: 5 and Counting
Awards and Achievements: Co-MVP
(2001 PHS). Outstanding Pitcher Award
(2001 HS), 1st Team All Conference
(99,00,01). World Series Appearance
(2003 SCC), 1st Team All Conference
(2003 SCC) 1st Team All SEC (2005 AU),
Nominee - Roger Clemens Pitcher of the
Year (2005 AU), Nominee - Stopper of the Year (2005 AU), 3rd Team All American (2005 AU), Pitcher of the Year (2006 Minors FWW), Triple A Rule 5 Draft (2008 New York Mets). Philosophy: If you want to be a professional you have to act like one. That means work out like one, play like one, think like one, BE ONE! If you put in the work and have the right attitude you'll be able to play baseball for a long time. Never Give Up!
Name: Gus Fernandez
Name: Mike DeMark
Position: rhp
Hometown: Jeannette PA
High School: Penn-Trafford HS
College: Marietta College
Years Pro Experience: Signed in 2007 with the San Diego Padres. 3 Seasons Pro and Counting.
Awards and Achievements: Pitcher of The Year 2006, All Conference 2003-2006, All Region 2003-2006, Rawlings All American 2003, College World Series Champions 2006
Philosophy: Baseball is a game of consistency. The player who can repeatedly come to the ball park, night after night and perform, will be the one who ends up on top.
Mike is currently giving lessons in the Peoria Arizona area. For more information and pricing
please click here or navigate to the lessons page.
Position: Catcher, 3B
Hometown: Poinciana FL
High School: Poinciana HS
Junior College: South Florida Community College
4 Year College: West Virginia Wesleyan
Years Pro Experience: 2
Awards and Achievements:
Philosophy: