Homeplate
philosophy
PRIME your player's game for their future!
- Boston PRIME Baseball Club is a skills-driven developmental baseball program.
- PRIME wants to help your athlete achieve his or her dream level of baseball.
- Over the last four seasons, we have built something special - a program that focuses on fundamentals which are often overlooked and under-appreciated by other programs.
- We have a robust program of 17 teams, 230 players, ages 9 - 17.
- PRIME has two former professional players, two MiLB coaches, four D1 coaches, and a renowned regional hitting instructor who coach our teams, as well as run open, nightly SKILLs program during the off season.
- We don’t believe in ‘practice makes perfect’ - we believe ‘perfect practice makes perfect’. With highly trained eyes on our players, we can improve practice efficiency and make changes at a much faster pace.
- PRIME ownership has relationships with some of the top instructors in the country who function as advisors to our curriculum.
PRIME SKILLs - a new approach to the off-season, which we pioneered in 2020. We have abandoned stale fall/winter team training practices. Instead, we offer position specific skills training - nightly - using both traditional and innovative drills and coaching, including video review and analytics. Players are encouraged to attend different sessions and get meaningful training across several positions. We believe that, at 10 years old, for example, no player is just a shortstop or just a left fielder. High school and prep coaches want players who are flexible and dynamic, who are able to play multiple positions. Parents also love the family flexibility; it must be attractive as other programs are trying to replicate the Prime SKILLs method.
Extra Innings in Watertown is the home of PRIME – this affords our athletes special advantages, training in an environment that is both player and family friendly. We also have a special relationship with Harvard and BC Baseball which will allow us to hold a number of practices in the Harvard and BC Bubbles in the off-season.
PRIME has forged a partnership with leading club program in the Southeast, Team Elite out of Atlanta - we will be hosting a combined National Showcase Team in the summers and look to expand additional showcase opportunities across age groups in the future.
We love this game and we are creating something different for your player and your family – a community of athletes, coaches and parents who honor the game and who push and support each other, not just for the next game, but on this intense and rewarding journey.
Founders
STEPHEN McCARTHY
Director of College and Prep Recruiting
Pitching Coordinator
Director of Prime Impact
jack mclaughlin
Program Director, Director of Hitting
- Active player, coach and successful owner/operator of Extra Innings-Watertown
- Coach of teams across a number of age groups
- Newton Legion, Little league, EBL 11U-15U, 16U travel ball
- Assistant coach at Newton North HS for several years
- Full-time instructor at Extra Innings
- A number of his players are playing ball at colleges across the northeast
- Captain of his Newton North HS baseball team his Junior and senior years
- Awarded the Bay State Conference All-Star and the Hamill Award for the Most Outstanding High School Baseball Player
- At Clemson University, played Club baseball for 4 years and was a 3 time All-Region Player
- Player-coach his senior year
stephen mccarthy
Director of College and Prep Recruiting, Pitching Coordinator
- Designs, oversees curriculum and instruction for all coaches across all PRIME age groups
- Director of College and Prep Recruiting: advising families, advocating for players
- 11th round pick in the draft, played 5+ years in the Cincinnati Reds and Cleveland Indians organizations. Reached AA and pitched in Major League camp
- Learned the professional game of baseball at the side of several current MLB coaches and a Hall of Famer
- Former President of Brookline Youth Baseball. Coach at the 7-16 levels since 2012. The most decorated Brookline Little League tournament coach
- A native of Milton and Dorchester, he played at Milton Academy where he was a 3 sport Division 1 recruit
- Played baseball at Brown University under Rhode Island great and former major leaguer, Dave Stenhouse