PRP Staff
Greg Vogt
Founder and Director of PRP Baseball
Greg Vogt
Founder and Director of PRP Baseball. Established in 2018, PRP trains baseball players of all ages to improve their game in all facets. The PRP Mambas program was started in 2021 and has been a top 5 national program. PRP has helped over 300 players in their processes to play collegiate baseball and works with players from more than 15 MLB organizations.
On top of leading PRP, Coach Vogt is the Rehab Pitching Coach for the Toronto Blue Jays. His role includes working with all injured pitchers, the biomechanics lab and setting development programs at the Complex, recent pitcher signings and draft picks, and creating throwing programs for the Blue Jays.
Coach Vogt attended Carmel High School and continued to play baseball at Anderson University, graduating in 2012. He is represented in the top 5 of 8 different pitching records, including 3 First Team All-Conference and 2nd team All-Region awards under long-time head coach Don Brandon at AU.
He became the pitching coach at Noblesville High School in 2013 under Coach Keever where the Millers won a state championship in 2014. Coach Vogt returned to the state finals as the pitching coach for Zionsville in 2016. He also coached with the Indiana Bulls, Indiana Nitro and now leads the PRP Mambas 18u program.
He lives in Dunedin, FL, with his wife Whitney and three boys Parker (7), Griffen (5), and Jax (1).
Contact - gvogt@prpbaseball.com
Anthony Gomez
Director of Player Development, Pitching
Lead Remote Throwing Coach
Currently, Anthony is the Bullpen Coach for Toronto Blue Jays AA Affiliate New Hampshire Fisher Cats
Anthony graduated from Munster HS, where he was a 3-year starting pitcher for the Mustangs. After high school, Gomez continued his baseball career at Vincennes University. After one year at Vincennes, he then transferred to Ball State, where he walked on the team. His sophomore year, he redshirted, and his junior year, he earned a letter. Gomez has been training athletes and doing lessons since his freshman year of college. During his college career and after finishing up at Ball State, Gomez served as the Munster HS volunteer assistant coach (2013,2014,2017).
In previous summers, Gomez spent time as a pitching coach and/or head coach for Morris Chiefs out of Northwest Indiana (2017-2019) and Chicago Prairie Gravel (2020). Gomez ran his own personalized and integrated throwing/strength programs for baseball athletes from 2017-2020. (Region Jabronis) He has worked with 150+ players ranging from middle school to high school to collegiate and professional levels.
Gomez provides knowledge of the biomechanics of throwing, intertwining weight room work to benefit throwers, and understanding human movement to help our athletes become more efficient movers on the field.
Gomez is also certified for pitching evaluation via OnBaseU.
Contact - agomez@prpbaseball.com
Jacob Douglass
Director of Hitting
Jacob is in his 4th year with PRP Baseball as a lead hitting coach. He joined us with Coach Quentin Brown (Pirates Hitting Coach) as a former trainee and now running our hitting programs. He has worked with hundreds of athletes of all levels within PRP Hitting offerings including hitters from top collegiate, professional, and amateur programs.
Jacob attended Western High School and was a part of the 2016 State Runner-up team. He continued his playing career at Trine University, where he graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Exercise Science. He aims to use his understanding of Kinesiology to help players optimize their on field performance. He provides hitting and defensive lessons at Finch Creek as well. Jacob also coaches one of the in-house, Indiana Primetime, travel teams.
Contact - jdouglass@prpbaseball.com
Luke Jaksich
PRP Assistant Director of Pitching
Remote Pitching Coach
Graduated from Andrean High School in 2016 where he competed in/won 2 state championships. During his junior year he was the starter for that state championship game. Upon graduation, he attended Saint Joseph’s College (D2) in 2016-2017 before the school unfortunately closed down. From there he went on to play at Ball State University (D1) from 2017-2021. Mainly out of the relief role, but during his senior year was one of the weekend starters for the Cardinals. After finishing his college career, Luke was picked up by the Sioux City Explorers in the American Association for the 2021 season.
After playing, he then decided to jump into coaching at Division 2 Alderson Broaddus University in West Virginia where he served as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator for the 2021-22 season. In previous summers when he wasn’t playing summer ball he coached for The Outsiders Baseball Club (2019) and Midwest Irish (2021).
Luke is in his second year with PRP as a pitching coach with experience leading our collegiate programs and working with professional pitchers from more than 10 organizations. Luke will bring passion and energy to our day to day training floor, as well as aiding our athletes in bridging the gap between day to day development to on field performance.
Contact - ljaksich@prpbaseball.com
Seth Story
PRP Performance Coach
Seth Story joined us in summer 2021 as a Coach for the PRP Mambas 18u.
Coach Story currently helps program and lead our skill classes alongside hitting and throwing training.
Coach Story has been coaching high school athletes for 10+ years, starting during his playing days at both Indiana Tech and Anderson before finishing his education at Indiana Wesleyan.
Specializing in fielding and speed & agility, Coach Story coached in high school at Eastbrook before going on to be on the staff at Hamilton Southeastern for 6 years. In the same timeframe through current, he has coached travel ball with the Phenoms and Bulls organizations, and is currently the Head Coach for our in-house PRP Mambas baseball program.
Contact - sstory@prpbaseball.com
Ryan Gold
Assistant Director of Hitting, and Director of Catching U
He will bring the perfect mix of new and old school style training to our program. After playing professional baseball for the past 8 seasons as a catcher, DH, and first baseman, he has been sculpted and trained under some of the best hitting and catching coaches in the Major Leagues. Guillermo Martinez Major League Hitting Coach (Toronto BlueJays), Bobby Wilson 11 year MLB veteran catcher, current MLB Catching Coordinator (Texas Rangers). Ryan has a wealth ofknowledge when it comes to hitting and catching, he’s extremely passionate about teaching and molding the next generation of baseball players.
Ryan started his career by getting drafted in the 27th round of the 2016 draft out of Carolina Forest High School in Myrtle Beach, SC. He spent 7 seasons with the Toronto BlueJays, making it to AA in 2021-2022. He was a MidWest League All Star in 2019, and an organizational All Star in 2017 after hitting .302 with an .864 ops in 39 games with the Bluefield Blue Jays. Ryan elected free agency after the 2022 season where he found himself a home with the Texas Rangers. In his brief stint with the club he was a part of the Triple A working group as well as participating in Big League games during his 2023 spring Training.
“I am extremely excited and thankful to be a part of the PRP staff! Although this program is already top notch to begin with, I can’t wait to bring new ideas and training styles to PRP for each player to reach their highest potential.”
Contact - rgold@prpbaseball.com
Instagram: @goldyscoaching22
Jake Lewis
Director of Sports Performance
Graduated from Providence High School in 2017, where won 2A state championship in 2016. After high school, played at Eastern Kentucky University, where was a weekend starter junior and senior year. Graduated in 2021 with a bachelor degree in Exercise Science. With the extra year back from COVID, transferred to Ball State, to finish out college career and earn a master's in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Sports Performance.
After playing, took a job as a sports performance coach at R&D baseball in Northern Virginia. Where coached players from 6+ professional organizations as well as college and high school athletes. Assisted in assessments of athletes and creating individualized strength programs for players.
Email: jlewis@prpbaseball.com
Nick Slone
PRP Performance Coach
Remote Pitching Coach
Nick graduated from Greenwood HS in 2016, and after his senior year of travel baseball earned a preferred walk-on pitching spot at the University of Southern Indiana. A couple of weeks before the tryout he unfortunately suffered a rotator cuff injury that then cut his career short.
After a few years at USI, he then transferred to IUPUI to finish his academics in Exercise Science, where he has now gone on to earn his certifications in both Personal Training and Sports Performance Specialist.
Nick has a passion for searching for better ways to improve himself as a pitcher, so he started doing Driveline Remote Training in 2015 before his senior year of HS. This training and research left a lasting impression when he then decided to become a coach and pitching instructor for Canes Indiana (formerly Indiana Twins) in 2019. The past couple of off-seasons he created and ran their HS pitching offseason program, as well as group training lessons.
Contact - nslone@prpbaseball.com
Matt Bowles
PRP Hitting Coach
Joey Romence
Pitching Coach
Graduated from Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, MI in 2013. After High School, played at Glen Oaks Community College. After two years at GOCC, transferred to Spring Arbor university and played for Hall of Fame coach, Sam Riggleman.
After Spring Arbor, Romence joined a facility in Kalamazoo, Hardball fans and worked there for 3 years. In the fall of 2020, Romence joined staff at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and served as their Pitching coach for 2 seasons. During that time, he also served as the pitching coach for the Kalamazoo Growlers, in Northwoods League in the summer of 2021.
After leaving KVCC in 2022, Romence joined on staff Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. He served as the Director of Operations / Pitching Development. He assisted in the day to day operations with the pitching staff, scouting reports, and utilizing Miami’s technology to enhance the performance of the pitchers. He was also the bullpen coach.
While at Miami, the pitching staff broke a new school record for most strikeouts in a single season (594) and ranked top 5 in the country for most strikeouts in the regular season.
Marcus McCormick
Throwing Trainer
Marcus McCormick is the current head varsity baseball coach at Speedway High School, and throwing trainer at PRP Baseball. Coach McCormick has been coaching at Speedway for the past 12 years. He has over 20 years of coaching and baseball training experience.
While at Speedway Coach McCormick has seen numerous players go on to play college baseball. He has had 3 Indiana North/South All-Stars. He has four sectional titles and an overall record of 156-146.
Coach McCormick has also coached at the travel ball level with various organizations, Pony Express, Primetime Baseball, and was a part of the group responsible for starting the Indy Outlaws baseball organization.
Coach McCormick has worked with numerous pitchers from High School, College, and Pro levels. He has helped develop a Core Velocity Belt, and plyo-ball program, which is used at PRP Baseball.
Coach McCormick is married to Kelley McCormick and has two sons Michael McCormick (drafted by Chicago White Sox 2017) and Nicholas McCormick (Eastern Illinois and University of Indianapolis)
Tasker Strobel
PRP Pitching Coach