Jason Shelley
Jason
is the owner of the Go Pro Sports Academy and Go Pro Baseball Organization. He
has 9 years of professional baseball experience ranging from independent
baseball to AA. He has been an instructor for over 10 years, working
with ages ranging from 6 years old up to college athletes. Jason was
an all-state high school player at Plainfield Central, and was drafted in the
40th round straight out of high school by the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1995 and
again after his junior year in college in the 29th round by the Toronto Blue
Jays. He played Division I baseball for Western Michigan and University of Louisiana Monroe, leading ULM with home runs and breaking the singe
season RBI record as a senior in 1999. He player in the Cape Cod league in 1997
and signed as a free agent in 1999 as an infielder with the Pirates. He
converted to a pitcher in 2000 and in 2002 he broke the single season strikeout
record with 156 strike outs in the Frontier League. He was 2003 Baseball
America's Independent Player of the Year. With the AA Brewers, Jason posted a
2.53 ERA with 54 strikeouts in 54 innings. Jason's overall statistics in AA are
a 3.18 ERA with 82 strikeouts in 87 innings.
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