About

Coaching Bio

With a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a master's degree in education, Fasone brings a unique perspective to player development. Seeing the positive effects personal relationships have on student success in the classroom, JP places a high value on cultivating relationships with his players. A relationship-first approach creates a culture of ownership, discipline, and selflessness, helping the athlete grow as a player and person.


"JP has always coached the right way and has made more of a difference for me personally than he knows. His ability to instill confidence in me as a player has always meant a lot." Joe Vondrachek, University of Dallas, Class of 2021


In May of 2021, Fasone took a step away from college baseball to accept a hitting internship at Driveline Baseball. JP developed programming for hitters from the high school to the professional level, monitoring progress through data analysis tools and Driveline's Big 3 key performance markers, bat speed, smash factor, and swing decisions.


While working with athletes daily, Fasone wrote blogs and coordinated Driveline's position player throwing program, integrating Pulse sensors to the position player side and jump-starting a position player workload study during the 2021-2022 college season.


While at the University of Dallas in 2018-2019, Fasone helped restructure the offensive philosophy to emphasize quality at-bats, a game-like practice structure, and variable implement training, increasing the team's on-base percentage by 39 points. While managing the run game from first base, Dallas posted a six-year high in stolen bases in 2019 and had two players finish first and second in the conference with 34 and 28, respectively. 


After graduating from Regis Jesuit High School in 2013, Fasone continued his education and baseball career at Whittier College in Southern California before transferring to the University of Dallas (UD) in 2014. He started 97 of the 116 games as an outfielder and multiple infield positions during his three years at UD.


Promptly transitioning to a coaching role after his senior year in 2017, Fasone took a volunteer assistant position with UD and spent two years coaching the offense and outfielders.  As a player, JP experienced the analytical revolution firsthand and quickly embraced a data-driven model as a coach, integrating Blast sensors into offensive training and tracking outfielders' catch probability based on fly ball location to better position players in-game. 


After finishing his master's degree, Fasone accepted a position at Lamar Community College to coach the outfielders, help with the offense, and run the new Development Center.  Lamar created the Development Center to provide a data-driven training environment that allows athletes to focus on individual growth outside of in-game competition.  Fasone used Rapsodo hitting reports and Blast Motion sensors to evaluate hitters and develop training protocols. As a result, the Development Center posted an average exit velocity increase of 4.59 mph over three months in the fall semester. In addition, the Lopes offense led the conference in hit-by-pitches, home runs, and slugging percentage.