Hitting, Fielding and Pitching Instruction
Helping to Build Your Baseball Future
Taking a mental, mechanical and data driven approach to elevate the athlete’s intangibles, mentality, and movement efficiency in order to become faster, stronger, and more efficient.
- Bergen County, North Jersey
Become A Better Baseball Player
What We Do
Hitting Instruction
Taking a mechanical/data-driven approach to improve your hitting ability. Elevate your mechanical framework, hit the ball harder, drive the ball further and GET MORE HITS!
Base Running Instruction
Become a field general and take over your position! We break down mechanics and verbal cues to take your fielding to the next level!
Fielding Instruction
Swing sequentially, swing on plane with the pitch and swing with confidence. Get your team working cohesively. Lets dive into the finer details of where our sport is heading.
Mental Approach
What makes the best athletes tick? Gain confidence, become mentally tough and create extreme belief in your training and yourself.
Pitching Instruction
Break down film on some of the best pitchers in the world and implement proper kinematic sequencing to increase your velocity, accuracy, confidence and mound presence.
Team Consultation
Explosiveness and agility speed training behind proper mental cues guaranteed to give you an edge on the base paths and other parts of the field.
Coach James Fitzgerald
Bloomfield College Hitting Coach
Meet Coach James Fitzgerald
A native of northern New Jersey, James Fitzgerald has played and coached baseball for the majority of his life. His love and passion for the game has enabled him to achieve many accomplishments, but none greater than to pass his knowledge and love of the game onto others.
A former standout player at Kean University, Coach Fitzgerald is currently the hitting coach at Division II Bloomfield College in Bloomfield, NJ. Coach Fitzgerald enjoys working with younger players and elevating their game through positive feedback and instruction.
- 3 years high school varsity
- Division 1 scholarship
- JUCO First Team All-Region and First Team All-Conference (GSAC)
- Attended Kean University, posting a career .330 batting average with nearly 150 career hits, 133 games played, 92 runs scored and only 1 error committed as an outfielder
About
Different Breed Training
Training Areas
Faster, stronger and more efficient. Hitting, fielding and pitching instruction as well as speed work and strength and conditioning specific to the sport.
Service Area
We are located in Bergen County, New Jersey and provide private baseball instruction in North Jersey, eastern PA and southern New York state.
Recruiting Assistance
With connections to colleges from all over the country, contact us for recruitment assistance such as college decision making, prospect recruitment videos & more…
Different Breed Training
What Makes Us Different?
The attention to detail in our hybrid style philosophy. Every swing is tracked to identify the specific deficiencies the hitter has providing a proper plan of attack. Metrics such as launch angles are tailor fit to put the hitter in the best position to succeed based on their specific average bat speed. Finally, providing the hitter with small attainable goals inside the batter’s box increases confidence. A confident hitter does not always succeed but an unconfident hitter will certainly fail.
Somewhere down the road mechanics replaced the importance of approach and now we see data overthrowing the importance of mechanics. All three aspects serve significant roles in hitting.
The Different Breed Training assessment begins as follows:
- Mechanical Evaluation
- Data Evaluation (Bat speed, attack angles, launch angles)
- Mental Approach Audit (“What are you thinking leading up to the at bat?”)
Testimonials
What Our Clients Say
Get A Free Swing Evaluation
First time customers will receive a free swing evaluation with slow-mo video & voice over analysis upon request.
