About Us

ProBaseball USA conducts Baseball Camps and Tournaments in the Puerto Rico featuring teams from the United States and the Caribbean. The Camps and Tournaments are hosted and instructed by a staff of professional baseball coaches. The Camps and Tournaments are for players ages ten (10) to nineteen (19).

ProBaseball USA has shown its capabilities over the last seven years – thirty-two (32) former players have either been signed or drafted by professional baseball teams.

Carlos Rivera, our Director, has assembled one of the premier coaching staffs in the world.

Coach Rivera - Danville Braves Baseball Card

Carlos Rivera - Lead Instructor/Head Coach

Carlos Rivera is a native Puertorican. Prior to joining the Danville Braves, Rivera was an assistant head coach at Baton Rouge Community College in Louisiana. In his first year with the program, the team wen 30-21 and ended up 9th in the nation for hitting. Three players were drafted while two signed as free agents. Prior to coaching at Baton Rouge Community College, Rivera was the head coach at Lafayette County High School where the team went 27-5 and was one win away from the state title in his first year. Rivera received his masters and has taught at the high school and community college level in both Spanish and Kinesology. In his free time, Rivera enjoys surfing.

Carlos Rivera - Director ProBaseball USA

Coach Rivera at the Worldwide Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida - 2005

Our Goals

To provide quality individualized instruction to every player from by our proffesional Coaches and Staff.
To give each player exposure to game situations and provide each player and opprotunity to improve his baseball skills.
To evalutate each player and provide feed back on the players' current level and future potentials.

Albert Sandoval - Strength Coach

Albert grew up in Pueblo, Colorado and graduated from Colorado State University-Pueblo with a Bachelors degree in Exercise Science with a minor in Sociology and Coaching. Albert finished his playing career at Baton Rouge Community College for one year, under the direction of Coach Rivera, and played for two years at Colorado State University-Pueblo. Albert worked at MBS Sports Performance as a Sports Performance Coach for six (6) months before being hired by the Colorado Rockies as a Strength Coach. Albert worked his first season for the Colorado Rockies Organization with the Rookie Ball affiliate Casper Ghosts. Albert continues to work for the Colorado Rockies Organization and trains athletes in Denver, Colorado during the off-season. Albert is also CPR and First Aid Certified.

Rafael Belliard

Belliard played from 1984 to 1990 with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He won one a Division title with the Pirates. He then signed a free agent contract and played with the Atlanta Braves from 1991 to 1998. With the Braves he helped win 7 Division titles with 4 appearances in the World Series. He won one World Series title in 1995. Over his career he played in 897 games, 5544.2 innings at shortstop with only 76 errors; at second base, in 171 games, 928.1 innings and 3 errors, and at third base be played 11 games 24.2 innings and had no errors. He was the fielding percentage leader in 1988 with 117 games in 811 innings played in and only 9 errors with a fielding percentage of .977. In 2000 he returned to the Braves organization to work with the minor leaguers as their infield roving instructor.

Chris Adams-Texas Rangers

After playing college baseball at Missouri Southern University (All American HM-Infield), Adams was a Head High School Baseball Coach in Illinois and Missouri for 17 years. He also spent 11 seasons working at Mickey Owen baseball school as an instructor, the last 5 of those seasons as Head Instructor/Asst. Director. He also worked several winters with Mickey Owen Baseball School with their Winter School in Arizona. The last 11 years, Adams has been an associate scout for the Texas Rangers, helping cover Missouri, Arkansas and Kansas. Other highlights in his career include a 2 year stint as a coach for the USA Junior Baseball trials. In 1994, Adams traveled to Indonesia as an instructor for the Reebok Baseball School. During his career, Adams has been a clinician for several player/coaches clinic in many states in the Midwest.

Coach Adams has a Biology degree from Missouri Southern University and a Masters degree from the University of Missouri. He is married to Tami (Real Estate Broker) and has 2 daughters, Mallori (21) and Alexandra (19). Hobbies include backpacking, hiking, camping.

Jon Shehan- Head Coach at Millersville University.

He was a catcher in the Atlanta Braves minor league system.

He has played two years in the Braves organization. He signed as a free agent with the Braves after a four year career at Millersville University in Pennsylvania. There he hit .397 his senior year, leading Division I and Division II in doubles with 23 in only 37 games. He has played the last two seasons with the Gulf Coast Braves, Rome Braves and Danville Braves. He is currently working to complete his Bachelor of Science in Education at Millersville University and would like to pursue a Master’s Degree in Sport Management in the near future.

Chris Rateike

Coach Rateike played collegiate level baseball at Indian Hills Community College and followed that with a two-year career with Arkansas Tech University. He was previously the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Indian Hills Community College in Centerville, IA. He is currently a Head Coach at Hill Community College in Hillsboro, TX.

Bryan Shepherd

Bryan Shepherd begins his seventh season as Head Baseball Coach at NJC. In his first six seasons, the Plainsmen went 161-116, including a school record for wins with 38, an Empire Conference Championship, a school record win streak of 14 and a #14 national ranking.

Shepherd comes to NJC from Oklahoma, where he spent six years as an assistant coach at Oklahoma Christian University and one season at National Runner-Up Oklahoma City University as a pitching coach. He also spent two summers as head coach of teh Oklahmoa City Sox, a summer team in the Red River Collegiate Wood Bat League. The Sox findished in 11th place both summers at the NBC World Series in Wichita, Kansas.

The summer prior to joining the Plainsmen, Shepherd was the pitching coach for the Canton Coyotes, an independent professional team in the Frontier League.

Coach Shepherd played his college ball at Seward County Community College and for the Liberal Bee-Jays (summer), before a shoulder injury ended his career. Oringally from Rapid City, South Dakota, he, his wife Neala, and daughter Camden now reside in Sterling.

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