“Know the Situation” To be postured for success in any game or for any given play, you have to "know the situation”. What inning is it? How many outs? What’s the count? Who is this hitter? Who is on deck? There are plenty of questions to ask to evaluate what your response needs to be in a given situation. A good coach, through instruction and practice prepares his players for a particular situation. Successful players prepare physically and mentally. An individual or team's preparation will be exposed in the cross-hairs of opportunity. What a great parallel to life. In life, we are …
Be a Good Teammate
There are several qualities of a good teammate: He is Prepared: Be prepared individually to help my team succeed He is an Encourager: Be secure enough to celebrate someone else's success He Leads by example: Attitude, Body Language, Work ethic speaks volumes He is courageous: Willing to speak up These are just four of many qualities that make for a good teammate. Of these four, I think that being courageous as it relates to speaking up is the most difficult. I'm not talking about speaking up in the context of whining about a bad call, criticizing a teammates mistake, or …
PDB hosts Czech National Team
Fall of 2013 & 2015 Purpose Driven Baseball hosted the Czech National Team. The Czech Team played NC State, Duke, UNCW, WFU, Campbell among others on their college tour. We took them to volunteer at the Miracle League, taught them to shoot shot guns and then introduced them to a good ole fashion Pig Pickin. There visit here was to enable them to continue their preparation for the World Baseball Classic Qualifier and European Championships. …
PD Alumni in College or Pros
The Goal of Purpose Driven Baseball is to help young men development as young men of character and baseball excellence. It has been a pleasure to see several of our players have the opportunity to play at the next level. Here is a partial list of our players. …
PD Camp Alumni
Since 2008 Purpose Driven Baseball has been blessed to have some incredible men give instruction at our Annual Camps. Here is a list of some of our instructors. We have also been honored to have players from every major D1 school in our area join us each winter to give back to the community. …
Winter Camps in Europe
Europe trip a success w/ Trot Nixon, Adam Warren, Scott Emerson, Kris Richards, Mike Griffin & Jay Stott to conduct camps and clinics in the Czech Republic and Germany. …
High Performance Camps
Annual Johnnie Stott Memorial Camp Feb. 6th 9:00am -Noon Clayton High School, Clayton, NC $50 Registration/Payment at 8:30am the day of the Camp Once again we have a great line up for this year's camp: Jerry Sands: Chicago White Sox Scott "Emo" Emerson Bullpen coach for Oakland A's Pat Watkins Former MLB Reds, Rockies, Marlins Corey Lee Former MLB Rangers Jason Roach Former MLB Mets Ryan Matthews Former NCSU and current Oakland A’s organization Alex Sogard Former AAA Astro's (NCSU) Ron Davenport Former player in Toronto Blue Jays organization Mike Griffin Former MLB Asia …
PD SPONSORS
A big THANK YOU to our sponsors for their assistance during the year …
Events/Tournaments
ANNUAL JOHNNIE STOTT MEMORIAL CAMP (Feb. 6, 2016) Elite Pitching Camp (December 28-31) Pro5 Academy Sessions (pro5baseball.com) If you are interested in bringing a team to this event, please email Jay Stott at jstott@paraleigh.com …
PD Videos
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