Josh Kesel - Head Strength & Conditioning Coach - Baseball Support Staff - Texas A&M Athletics

Josh Kesel

Title:
Head Strength & Conditioning Coach
Email:
jkesel@athletics.tamu.edu

Josh Kesel joined Texas A&M Basbeall in September of 2023 as the Aggies' strength & conditioning coach after serving as the Performance Director of Premier Pitching and Performance (aka P3) outside of St. Louis, which he co-founded in 2014. Under his direction, Premier Pitching and Performance turned into one of the most successful and trusted destinations for pitchers in the country. He took over as sole operator of the venture in 2018 when his co-founder, Brian DeLunas, was hired to become the bullpen coach for the Seattle Mariners.

For the five years prior to joining A&M, Kesel overseaw staffs of up to seven members per year with an additional two interns at P3. Four of those staff members have advanced to professional baseball and three have gone on to coach at the NCAA Division I level.

Since P3’s opening, Kesel has worked with players from every MLB organization, including over 100 MiLB and MLB athletes. First-round picks Tanner Houck, Devin Williams, Jackson Rutledge, Riley Pint, Jonathan Harris and Joey Wentz all trained under Kesel. He has also worked with hundreds of athletes from over 100 colleges and universities, along with other professionals such as Ross Detwiler, Ryne Stanek, Andrew Benintendi, Josh Lindblom and Jake Odorizzi.

In 2019, he helped orchestrate the creation of the Premier Pitching Collegiate Partnership Program which includes over 20 university and coaching staff partners from schools such as Coastal Carolina, Southern Illinois, Central Michigan and Charlotte. Kesel has also used this program to write individualized mobility and corrective programs toward health and injury prevention for Duke, Notre Dame, Memphis, Purdue and Northwestern.

In 2021, the program expanded to MLB when the Baltimore Orioles hired Kesel’s group to execute the same process for their organization and over the next year worked with multiple officials from the O’s organization to help them build out their assessment process and pitching lab in Baltimore.

Along with his works at P3, Kesel has built additional coaching experience as the strength coach at Maryville University (NCAA Division II) and as the varsity pitching coach for Christian Brothers College High School, a large Class Five school in the St. Louis area.

Additionally, he founded and oversees Amplify Athletes, a non-profit charity created to build athletic scholarships for underprivileged athletes.

Kesel earned a bachelor’s degree from Lindenwood University and holds recognition from the Postural Restoration Institute (PRT), USAW, NSCA, CSAC and a Level 1 certification from Precision Nutrition.