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Development in Action
Training & Development
The work behind the progress. Every rep, every lesson, and every opportunity contributes to Marcos' development as a student-athlete.
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International Baseball Development
Since April 2025 Marcos has trained in recurring blocks at El Niche Baseball Academy in Santo Domingo, returning across three offseasons: April 2025, July through August 2025, and again in July 2026.
The sessions put him in a different baseball culture from the one he trains in at home. Days are long and largely outdoors, the instruction comes from Dominican professional coaches, and the emphasis falls on repetition, footwork, and reading the game rather than on measurement. He works alongside players who grew up in that system, which means the standard around him is set by people with a different set of habits and a different relationship to the sport.
The value is exposure rather than any single skill acquired. He has trained in two environments, adapted to both, and kept coming back. The photographs below are from those sessions.
Summer 2025 · Age 14
Batting practice at El Niche during the July and August 2025 block, shortly after he turned 14. The cage session runs unedited across fourteen consecutive swings. These predate the August 2026 hitting assessment by a year.
Two-Way Development
Pre-fall hitting assessment | Kinetic Baseball Academy | August 2026
Three consecutive cage swings from the same session, shown unedited and in the order they were taken. These are development clips, not game highlights.
Verified Rapsodo · Kinetic Baseball Academy · Pre-Fall Hitting Assessment · August 11, 2026
The assessment metrics cover all 48 tracked batted balls from this session. They are not tied to any individual swing shown here. See the tracked metrics.