DR Academy Hitting Coach

Your tasks

• Assist the Hitting Coach and Roving Hitting Instructor with creating and executing daily hitting practice plans.
• Coordinate daily schedules with the Hitting Coach to ensure efficient use of time.
• Help prepare and deliver educational material to our position players.
• Operate hitting analysis tools such as Blast Motion, HitTrax and internal software.
• Support the hitting portion of Player Performance Meetings, tracking and reporting on hitters’ goal progress.
• Maintain communication with the Hitting Development team to streamline transitions for players promoted or demoted.

Requirements

• Evaluate and prescribe best-in-class drills to address deficiencies in each individual player.
• Able to develop programming towards organizationally defined KPIs.
• Able to cultivate trust and player buy-in.
• Willing and able to use technology to maximize the effectiveness of programming.
• Able to develop key takeaways from large amounts of data to identify high leverage areas of development for each player.