Welcome to the new age of baseball instruction! Baseball is a traditional sport. For years, baseball fundamentals were passed down without dispute from “experts” in the game to the youth level. Now in the information age, we found that what was previously taken as fact was, in many cases, largely in error. Elite Baseball Training has embraced, and pushed ahead in, the necessary merger between technology and baseball.

At the beginning of my coaching career, computers and digital video were just starting to be used in baseball. This trend has continued and been critical in the progression of baseball instruction and the development of my coaching career. Through the insertion of technology into main stream baseball, the ability to teach the game has progressed more in the last 10 years than it did in the first 100 years. Throughout my educational and coaching career, I have studied and utilized various technologies and have obtained a Master’s degree and developed an expertise in this area. Over the years, I have helped professional players and entire Major League Baseball organizations refine their processes of integrating technology into player development. To add, we regularly confer with,and test, the latest baseball products for tech companies integrating into baseball, which allows us to use the newest systems, first.

The latest push of “data-driven” training illustrates that organizations are seeing the benefits of the information revealed through technology. What this means is that we have been providing advanced instructional aides, that have just recently become common place for multi-million dollar players, as the standard method of instruction for all of our clients – from the little league players to college and professional athletes. Given the growing trend in merging baseball and technology, we believe this approach gives our clients an advantage on the field and prepares them for the long-term future success in the game of baseball.

My career in coaching began as a Division 1 assistant coach at Indiana State University. I moved to Chicago and began my career as a private baseball instructor at a training academy affiliated with the Chicago White Sox.  After starting as the biokinematic consultant for the Chicago Cubs I was hired as their Director of Hitting. I provide technology guidance for many Division 1 colleges and Major League Baseball teams. The current chapter of my career with Elite Baseball Training, focuses on leveraging years of baseball experience and technology expertise in order to provide highly progressive instruction to players of all ages and experience levels and teaching baseball fundamentals in a new, logical way.

At Elite Baseball Training, we are pushing the envelope on the next age of baseball instruction. Our instructors use technology to teach baseball in the most efficient way possible, and although many of our instructors played professionally and collegiately, we do not rely on the information that was passed down and considered true for decades. We believe we are the front runners in this area. In fact, other instructors, coaches and players nationwide seek us out as a source of knowledge for a better way of teaching. Why? Because we never stop learning ourselves, and with our sophisticated resources, we believe that we have better opportunities to learn than others do.

Elite Baseball Training is also home to one of the nation’s most talented travel team programs. Our Elite teams travel across the country seeking the highest level of competition. Elite players have been recruited to schools all over the country and the work we do as an organization makes recruiting our players easy. We have had a vast amount of players commit collegiately or enter the MLB draft.

Baseball instruction is our business, and it is a business we take very seriously. However, we are also in the business of helping elite players fulfill their dreams. At the youth level, we are growing self-esteem, passing on a passion for baseball, and helping parents connect with their kids through the great medium of sports. At the end of the day, we love what we do, and seeing kids enjoy the game and advanced players push themselves to continue to achieve their goals, drives our commitment to the sport and providing quality, progressive instruction.

See you on the field!

Justin Stone and the Elite Baseball Training Team