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Bay Area Ballplayers offers sports training that includes spring classes, private lessons, drop-in classes, athlete performance training, camps, and clinics. Athletes can take part in baseball and softball hitting, pitching, defense, and catching instruction, as well as softball small group training and softball private lessons. The program also offers lacrosse speed and agility training and water polo throwing motion training.
• Schedule: School-year and summer hours with weekday, Saturday, and Sunday options; Sunday sessions are by appointment only during the school year and by appointment only in summer.
Bay Area Ballplayers includes a main indoor facility with a full gym, two batting cages, two pitching mounds, a Foresight golf simulator, and a Hittrax system, along with a secondary facility called “The Bank” that has a full batting cage, pitching machine, pocket radar, and a fully outfitted gym space. The program specializes in baseball, softball, lacrosse, and water polo athletes, with a primary focus on athletic development. Its softball program includes competitive travel teams under the Lady Ballplayers name, with current teams at the 10U and 12U levels. The program trains lacrosse athletes to be more explosive, quick, injury resistant, and to shoot faster, and uses a specific approach to training the water polo throwing motion to be more powerful and resilient to injury.
Bay Area Ballplayers is led by owner Steve Hammond, who is the current Head Varsity Baseball Coach at Miramonte High School. The organization’s history includes Bay Area Ballplayers athlete performance training, camps, and clinics operating from 2015 to the present, opening the Moraga Ballplayers facility in January 2019, and founding Ballplayer Academy, an AAU 501c3 nonprofit baseball development program, in April 2020. The program’s stated goal is to provide a positive and encouraging experience for each person who enters the facility, to build strength, speed, and sport skills, and to instill character, discipline, and responsibility, while aiming to be each athlete’s biggest supporter and to develop long-term relationships. Staff credentials include a Certified Speed & Agility Coach through the National Sports Performance Association, Certified Personal Trainer, and NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Sports Performance Enhancement Coach. The program also shares information to help families keep up with sports-related activities in Lamorinda and the East Bay.
Last updated March 30, 2026.
• Schedule: School-year and summer hours with weekday, Saturday, and Sunday options; Sunday sessions are by appointment only during the school year and by appointment only in summer.
Bay Area Ballplayers includes a main indoor facility with a full gym, two batting cages, two pitching mounds, a Foresight golf simulator, and a Hittrax system, along with a secondary facility called “The Bank” that has a full batting cage, pitching machine, pocket radar, and a fully outfitted gym space. The program specializes in baseball, softball, lacrosse, and water polo athletes, with a primary focus on athletic development. Its softball program includes competitive travel teams under the Lady Ballplayers name, with current teams at the 10U and 12U levels. The program trains lacrosse athletes to be more explosive, quick, injury resistant, and to shoot faster, and uses a specific approach to training the water polo throwing motion to be more powerful and resilient to injury.
Bay Area Ballplayers is led by owner Steve Hammond, who is the current Head Varsity Baseball Coach at Miramonte High School. The organization’s history includes Bay Area Ballplayers athlete performance training, camps, and clinics operating from 2015 to the present, opening the Moraga Ballplayers facility in January 2019, and founding Ballplayer Academy, an AAU 501c3 nonprofit baseball development program, in April 2020. The program’s stated goal is to provide a positive and encouraging experience for each person who enters the facility, to build strength, speed, and sport skills, and to instill character, discipline, and responsibility, while aiming to be each athlete’s biggest supporter and to develop long-term relationships. Staff credentials include a Certified Speed & Agility Coach through the National Sports Performance Association, Certified Personal Trainer, and NASM Certified Personal Trainer and Certified Sports Performance Enhancement Coach. The program also shares information to help families keep up with sports-related activities in Lamorinda and the East Bay.
Last updated March 30, 2026.
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