I'm Sean. I coach one player at a time.

Baseball has been my lifelong passion, and it has shaped both who I am and what I do today. I was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington, and I've been swinging bats and catching curveballs since I was about nine months old.

My playing career took me from Little League through Puyallup High School, on to Tacoma Community College, and then to Northern State University. Northern State is where I put on a different glove — after years behind the plate, they made me a pitcher. One of the high points came with the semi-professional Tucson Nationals, where we contended for a Sunbelt League Championship. Along the way I earned a varsity letter at the Division II level.

But the part of baseball that stayed with me isn't in a stat line. It's the relationships and the friendships — the camaraderie, the shared triumphs, and the shared trials. Those are what enriched my life, and they're the reason I'm still around this game.

I've been coaching youth athletes off and on since 2006, including two and a half years running instruction out of 520 Elite Hitters Club and Crush Cages in Casa Grande, Arizona. That's where I worked out how I actually want to teach.

“Making learning fun through gamification of drills, effort, and hard work.”

That's the method, and it isn't a gimmick. A drill that feels like a game gets run twenty times with real intent; a drill that feels like a chore gets run five times badly. The lessons the field teaches — integrity, honesty, and the value of hard work — have had a bigger impact on my life outside the sport than anything I ever did between the lines.

That's what I'm trying to pass on now. My goal is to mentor and guide aspiring athletes so they become better players — and, more importantly, better humans.

I also wrote a book about it. The Mental Game of Baseball: Master Your Mind is about the part of this sport that decides most careers and gets almost none of the practice time. Gatlin Johnson edited the final copy and Eleni Aman did the artwork.

When I'm not on a field or in a cage, you'll usually find me traveling or hiking. Those trips keep me grounded and keep me inspired.

I'm based in northwest Oklahoma City, and right now I come to you. Lessons run at your field, your cage, or a facility your family already has access to — whichever is closest and easiest. No membership to join and nothing to sign up for.

That's the whole setup for now, and deliberately so — you don't drive across the metro and you don't pay for a membership on top of a lesson. If I do settle into a regular indoor space down the line, I'll say so here.

Regularly working with families in NW OKC, Warr Acres, Bethany, The Village, Nichols Hills, Putnam City, Edmond, Yukon, Deer Creek, Piedmont, Mustang and Moore.