The big highlight of working there was to train Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel. In addition to that, I played 3 years of winter ball in Australia, followed by 7 years of winter ball in Venezuela from 1996-2005.Īfter finishing the season in Taiwan 2007, I began my official coaching work at the Rod Dedeaux Research and Baseball Institute. and the minor league organizations of the Mets, the Northern League, the Dodgers, the Atlantic League, the Mariners, the Marlins, back to the Tigers, back to the Atlantic League and to the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) of Taiwan. Three years in, I made my Major League Debut versus the New York Yankees on June 15, 1995.Īfter the Tigers sent me back to AAA, I was traded the following season and found myself traveling the U.S. My pro career began in Lakeland, Florida playing division high-A for the Tigers. The Tigers drafted me in the 7 th round and I signed in late June of 1992. I was a top pitcher for both teams and was the winning pitcher in the 1992 Championship Game. I had 48 wins in 4 years of college ball (24 each at Los Angeles Harbor and Pepperdine), our JC team won the state championship with a record of 51-5, at Pepperdine we were 1992 National Champions going 48-11. So, where do I begin? How about I tell you about myself first? I would like to share my personal stories here at some point, but let’s start out with some baseball credentials. My intention is twofold – pass on my experience and my expertise in baseball to anyone who enjoys reading about it and expose the readers of this blog to the experience and expertise of those coaches, trainers, and other specialists that have helped me to have a successful, injury free baseball career. It’s the Way I have been following for most of my life even before I became a professional baseball player in 1992 following a very successful college career before that. If you understand that all Ways follow this, you can hear about all of them and have a better understanding of your own. Whether it’s the Way of the Samurai, the Way of the executive, or the Way of Baseball, there is a set of essential practices that constitute a Way. The main message of this quote is every activity of any importance has a set of practices that one must follow – a Way. If one understands things in this manner, he should be able to hear about all Ways and be more and more in accord with his own.” It’s the same for anything else that is called a Way. One should not look for anything else in the way of the samurai. I took inspiration for the name of this blog and my website from a quote out of Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai. So as Cliff Lee gets a couple of strikeouts in the first inning and CC begins the top of the second, I’m excited to make my first blog entry. It seems like a good idea to begin the Way of Baseball blog while watching Game 1 of the World Series.
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