77 - Joe Palumbo: Archbishop Spalding HS (MD)

Palumbo Notes

 

Bio

• Head coach at Archbishop Spalding (MD) - Going into my 10 year (9th season)
• Played at the University of Maryland from 2005-2008

 

Joe Palumbo is the head varsity baseball coach at Archbishop Spalding High School. The former Maryland baseball player led the Spalding program to three consecutive MIAA “A” championships and #1 rankings in The BaltimoreSun in 2014, 2015 and 2016, as well as Top 50 national rankings in USA Today in 2015, 2016 and 2019. He was named the 2014 Coach of the Year in The Baltimore Sun, The Anne Arundel County Capital-Gazette, and the Co-Coach of the Year by the Varsity Sports Network and the Maryland State

Association of Baseball Coaches Association. In 2016, he was awarded the 2016 Anne Arundel County Capital-Gazette Coach of the Year award. Following Spalding’s 2021 MIAA “A” regular season championship he was selected as Anne Arundel County Capital-Gazette Coach of the Year. He has now coached 38 players that have gone to play collegiately at the NCAA Division 1, 2, or 3 levels.  

 

Notes

• We have high standards, and you need to know how to build a culture
• Culture of high standards and excellence
  • My standards are high across the board - in the class, weightroom, hallway, and ball field
• We do not hide our standards
• Character, commitment, and champions
  • Champions - other people want to be around you
    • You are producing good things day in and day out in your life
  • Character - how are you getting results in your daily life, how are you working when I am not around, 
  • commitment(s) - you have to do the work and if you get on it by yourself and do the work you make even get a commitment (if you want to go that route)
• The parents are helpful in instilling the culture
• I need to prove myself to the new class every year
• Messages, classrooms, weightroom to bring in people and talk about lessons learned from people who have done it the right way to be champions
• Weightlifting 3 days a week until christmas break (off season)
• In season utilizing individualize program and focus on the movements
• I don’t want you to feel like I was as a freshman when I was behind, so we are going to get you prepared for the weightroom
• Emphasis on form for younger guys and older guys can get after it
• The goal is injury prevention and strength development
• The wrestler and football player can learn a lot of mental toughness than playing baseball
• After fall ball (end of october) we bring up the intensity of weightroom
• January is where we start up baseball activities up until mid february when we have tryouts
• Infield work can be done in a small place
• If we can run a great indoor practice that can separate us from the rest because anyone can run a good practice outside
• You want your guys sharp at the end of the year
• Coaches need to pull themselves back and see what happens at the end of the year and plan for the year
• What gets you on second base?
• Based on your skills we will try and enhance those skills
• Put pressure on them consistently
• You have to have a plan and stick to the plan, so you have a better chance you execute the plan
• You have do everything right and get out
• We are going to play to guys strengths 
• Your team should guide your philosophy
• We want to be competitive in the box
• Teachable moment after the game to talk about situations where the approach brokedown
• We need to make adjustments to their adjustments
• Conversations during BP and situational rounds to work on approach (what you are looking for)
• Its ok to get beat for 2 strikes, but we are not getting beat in hitter counts
• Velo BP days are uncomfortable for our hitters
  • Coach close or machine juiced up
• Pitcher who has not thrown live in a while he will go in front of the mound to go live at hitters
• BP
  • Live 
  • Baserunning
  • Situational
  • Defensive position 
  • Cages
• I try to put the most pressure on our team defense segment as I can. 
  • Time based to implement and teach
  • Then show you can execute 5 in a row and we move on
• If we can “handle the ball” and don’t give up any runs we cannot lose
• If we are going to be really good at the fundamentals we are going to be tough
• We are running until the other team shows us they can stop us
• coachpalumboashs@gmail.com
• As a coach what can you learn today?
• You can learn from Nick Saban, Kobe Bryant, and a lot of great people, and lear as much as you can
• If you put the work in to be successful in baseball an you take that same work ethc you will be successful in anything 
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