That being said, I want to share a few of my thoughts and a number of videos that we have put together to help the player(s) and/or coach(e)s in your house in their quest to stay active with the game, and commitment to improve both physically and mentally.

From a personal standpoint, the past three weeks have given me a chance to reflect, slow down, re-connect and spend more time with the people I love, my family (although my 3 teenage kids may not share the same sentiment, LOL).

If you have spent significant time on social media or even watching the news, you can learn a lot about people and the way they handle stress, fear, the unknown, etc... It goes without saying that much like baseball, everyone, young and old needs to have their own game plan or approach on how to deal with our current situation as we are all on the same team. I have a lot of thoughts and suggestions that have really worked for me. If you would like to chat, hear my thoughts, are looking for advice or have questions about any of our at home drills, please feel free to email me at pudgemvp@cox.net or text me at 703 975-4124 and I'd be glad to give you a call.

Lastly, our home practice plan and instructional videos can be found on the MVP Baseball School website under the new "Home Training" menu item or by clicking the following link https://www.mvpbaseballschool.com/home-training/. In the next couple of weeks there will be more to come from a number of our professional coaches and instructors, as well as friends who love to talk baseball and share some of their favorite drills to help players of all ages to develop. Special thanks to coaches TJ Ehrsam and Brent Weiss for producing our first round of videos. Also, special thanks to Josh Gjormand (Lynchburg University) and Jake Stiehl (South Lakes HS) for helping us film and edit our videos. Please note that the videos shot at the facility were completed before the VA shelter at home mandate.

In closing, as mandated by the State, our facility is currently closed. We are excited and look forward to the day we can re-open and all get back on the field and play the game we love. That will mean we have  beaten this virus and we will all be grateful for that. At MVP, we will continue to take it week to week in terms of our facility and have a plan in place for all our teams in terms of making maximum use of the facility upon our doors opening.

Please continue to check our website for any updates, including registration for our upcoming tryouts for rising 13u and 14u Terps teams that will start up this fall. We have always held these tryouts in early May, but are currently on hold until we get the OK from the powers that be.

Again, our best to you and your family. Stay safe and stay home. Godspeed to all in this difficult time.

Yours in baseball,

Coach Mark "Pudge" Gjormand