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Ty Neal is a former NCAA Division I pitching and head Coach. He played collegiately at Miami Ohio University, a Division I program in Oxford, Ohio. In the spring of 2000 he began his coaching career at Miami Ohio as an assistant coach. A year later in 2001 he accepted a pitching coach position at Division I Southern Illinois. Later in 2004 he became an assistant coach at Division I Cincinnati University and then in 2005 he went back to Miami Ohio University. Than from 2006-2013 he was an Assistant Coach focused on the pitching staff at Division I Indiana University. During his time there he personally coached two pitchers who became the number 1 and 2 on the all-time wins leaderboard at Indiana University as well as in the 2013 season helped coach the baseball team to a College World Series. Than from 2014-2017 he took over the head coaching job at Division I Cincinnati University and in 2018 was a quality control analyst at Arizona State.

In this episode, we start off talking about how to throw healthy as a pitcher, which is backed up by the fact that not ONE player received Tommy John surgery while under Coach Neal. We also go into depth on simplifying pitching at the youth levels, teaching players to throw 80% 1st-pitch strikes, and developing High School players for College baseball.

We also talk about his thoughts on prioritizing recruits with a competitive mentality and de-prioritizing velocity when recruiting pitchers. If you want to learn from a guy with a tremendous amount of experience in many different levels of the baseball world than lock into this conversation between Ty Neal and I.