Daily Log, Day 3:

Daily Log:

Day 3

The Founder of the Stealth baseball team, Jason Mengel, has brought the Stealth Winter Workout to LVBA and it has taken off. Almost 200 kids participating in 2010, up from about 50 or 60 last year. And it is no surprise why the participation has skyrocketed since the merger between the Stealth program and LVBA.

With two sessions of the winter workout running today (and four more sessions tomorrow), I just took one look around and can see why it took off: The instructors LVBA was able to add to this workout has taken this to a new level.

Mengel himself and former Mets' farmhand Josh Perich do a fantastic job instructing the kids, but as I walk around, I also see Sam Walls, who pitched for the Reading Phillies in 2009 and Fuhrman (formerly with the Detroit Tigers) doing the pitching instruction and Mark Angelo (currently with the Seattle Mariners) doing the fielding drills. Josh Baltz (Muhlenburg assistant coach) also does a great job with hitting drills.

The goal of the winter workout is to prepare kids (ages 7 through 15) for their spring/summer seasons that start in April. The workout starts the first weekend of December and runs through the last weekend of March and many parents mentioned last year that the kids who participated in the workout stood out over everyone else in their local town leagues because the kids had a huge head start and got professional instruction for months leading up to the start of their season.

Just another success story at LVBA as I wouldn't be surprised to see over 300 kids doing the winter workout in 2011.