About Pease Baseball Professionals
- Home |
- About Pease Baseball Professionals
Built for Players Who Want More
Pease Baseball Professionals was founded in Frederick, Maryland in 2016 with a simple purpose: create an environment where serious baseball players have the resources, instruction, access, and people around them to pursue their potential.
PBP has since grown into a year-round player development organization serving athletes throughout the Mid-Atlantic — from young players beginning their development to high school and college athletes, professional players, and PBP alumni continuing their careers at the next level.
But the mission has remained remarkably simple.
Give players a great place to work. Put great people around them. Create an environment that rewards consistency. Then let development happen over time.
Players build themselves. We’re part of their journey.
THE PBP APPROACH
There is no shortcut to becoming a good baseball player.
Development requires instruction, repetition, competition, physical preparation, failure, adjustment, and time.
PBP was built to bring those pieces together.
Our athletes have access to professional instruction in pitching, hitting, catching, and fielding; strength and conditioning; technology and performance feedback; year-round training environments; live competition; clinics and programs; and a community of players who take their development seriously.
We use technology when it provides useful information. We use experience when experience matters. And we never allow either to replace the most important part of development:
Doing the work.
MORE THAN LESSONS
PBP began with instruction, but it has evolved into something much larger.
Today, player development at PBP can include:
Pitching Instruction
Individualized development built around command, delivery, pitch development, preparation, and each pitcher’s unique abilities.
Hitting Instruction
Individual and group training focused on building adaptable, competitive hitters rather than simply creating a better batting-practice swing.
Catching Instruction
Receiving, blocking, throwing, game management, leadership, and the complete skill set required behind the plate.
Fielding Instruction
Individualized defensive training focused on footwork, movement, glove work, throwing, positioning, and becoming a more complete defender.
Strength & Conditioning
Individualized physical development designed around the demands of the athlete and the game.
Membership
Year-round access to PBP’s training environment, equipment, technology, programs, and community.
Camps, Clinics & Live Competition
Additional opportunities for athletes to learn, compete, and train alongside players and coaches throughout the PBP network.
College & Professional Experience
Our staff and extended baseball network provide players with perspective from people who have competed, coached, recruited, and developed athletes at advanced levels of the game.
THE ENVIRONMENT
Facilities matter. Equipment matters. Technology matters.
But environment matters more.
PBP was designed to become a place players want to be — not simply somewhere they are scheduled to train.
Our indoor player development facility and outdoor training complex give athletes the ability to train throughout the year. Members routinely share the facility with college players, professional players, coaches, younger athletes, and former PBP players returning home.
That interaction is intentional.
Younger players get to see what the next level looks like. Older players have a place to continue their work. Coaches remain accessible. Relationships develop. Standards become visible.
Over time, that becomes culture.
OUR STANDARD
We believe development should be demanding without becoming complicated.
We value:
Consistency over shortcuts.
Real development is accumulated.
Individuality over conformity.
Players are different. Their development should reflect that.
Teaching over dependency.
Our goal is to help athletes understand their own game and eventually take greater ownership of it.
Competition over comfort.
Players need opportunities to test what they have learned.
People over technology.
Data can inform development. It cannot replace coaching, experience, observation, or relationships.
The person as much as the player.
Baseball eventually ends for everyone. The habits, relationships, confidence, and experiences built along the way can last much longer.
MEET THE PBP STAFF
PBP’s staff brings experience from professional baseball, college baseball, coaching, player development, strength and conditioning, and specialized instruction.
Dustin Pease — Founder | Pitching
Former professional pitcher with the Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres organizations. Dustin founded PBP in 2016 and leads the organization’s pitching development, membership culture, and overall player-development philosophy.
PBP Coaching Experience: 19+ years
2007 first lesson commenced.
View FULL BIO
Ivor Hodgson — Co-Founder | Hitting & Pitching
A former Kansas City Royals organization player and Gatorade Player of the Year, Ivor brings professional playing experience and years of player development work to PBP.
PBP Coaching Experience: 7+ years
2019 – present
View FULL BIO
Josh Conway — Pitching
Former Chicago Cubs organization pitcher and Baltimore Orioles development coach. Josh combines professional playing experience with player-development and analytical expertise.
PBP Coaching Experience: 4+ years
2022 – present
View FULL BIO
Brady Policelli — Catching & Hitting
Former Detroit Tigers organization catcher and utility player specializing in catching development and hitting instruction.
PBP Coaching Experience: 4+ years
2022 – present
View FULL BIO
Evan Englebrook — Pitching | Hitting | Fielding
An 11-year professional pitcher with extensive coaching experience, Evan works with athletes across multiple areas of the game and brings a veteran professional perspective to player development.
Scott Thomson — Hitting | Fielding | College Baseball
A longtime collegiate head coach with decades of experience developing players, Scott provides instruction and perspective shaped by an extensive career in college baseball.
PBP Coaching Experience: 5+ years
2021 – present
View FULL BIO
Brett Ahalt — Infielding Specialist
Brett leads PBP’s infield development, working with players on defensive movement, footwork, glove work, throwing, positioning, and the details required to become a dependable, complete infielder.
PBP Coaching Experience: 1+ year
2025 – present
View FULL BIO
Colin Doll, CSCS — Director of Performance
Colin leads PBP’s strength and conditioning program, bringing more than 15 years of experience working with athletes from the youth level through high school, college, professional, and Olympic environments.
S&C Training Experience: 15 years
2011 – present
View FULL BIO
Amy Goldsmith — Sports Nutrition
A certified sports nutritionist providing athletes with practical nutrition strategies designed to support performance, recovery, development, and long-term health.
View FULL BIO
BUILT ON PEOPLE
PBP has been fortunate to work with hundreds of athletes and families since 2016.
Many have continued into college baseball. Some have entered professional baseball. Others eventually finished their playing careers and moved into the next stage of their lives.
All of them have helped shape what PBP has become.
Our goal isn’t to manufacture baseball players.
It is to provide the environment, resources, coaching, competition, and community that allow motivated players to find out how good they can become.
That was the idea in 2016.
It remains the idea today.
Players build themselves. We’re part of their journey.