Tyler Faust 26’

One of our 2026s- Ty Faust (Kiski Prep) is off to a nice start for @JudsonBaseball We sort of thought this would happen with Ty under the tutelage of one of the best young hitting coaches in the country @evanruechel Big turn around for Judson in the last two years. @TylerFaust17 @FlatgroundBats @NAIABall @NAIA

11 Summers of bringing it Often Imitated Never Duplicated PVS Summer Training - where the only number higher than the temperature in the lab- is on the Radar Gun Have a look- and a listen around :30 in 😉

Busy Friday in the lab for the boys. The energy and enthusiasm for the summer is at an all time high 👊

🚨 Tremendous choice by 2026 @TylerFaust17 “Tub” will be playing for 1 of the best Hitting teachers in the country in @evanruechel. Evan, Head Coach at @JudsonBaseball went 31-25 as Eagle Skipper in 2025. The Eagles went 9-41 the year prior. Previously as Hitting Coach, Evan was instrumental in turning @BSU_Baseball_ into 1 of the top 10 D2 hitting teams in the country during the 2024 season. Go Where The Coaches are 👏 Run Your Own Race 👏 #PVSscoutTeam

Kiski 2026s @cyz450 & @TylerFaust17 working Hard on Thanksgiving Friday 🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃🦃

Tuesdays are separators Uncommitted 2026s @TylerFaust17 & @cyz450 getting it in with the help of Pros Raffy & Jose

🧵 if you never read anything else we ever write…. read this one: ⚡️Dude Perfect to D1⚡️ The Matthew Hughes PVS Story “Impossible is nothing” is one of our tag lines at PVS…..And no single person embodies that More than the kid you are going to read about below. He checks all the boxes…. Cut from the School team ✅ undersized ✅ not a single person within 100 miles thought he was any good✅ Number of teams want him to play or guest on their travel team: 0️⃣ Perfect Game Ranking: Never Had one Scouting Service: Doesn’t have one It’s hard to know where to start. There are so many young men and families chasing the wrong things. They are almost always well intentioned…but still chasing the wrong things. For a time - this kid did as well….But in a 180 straight out of a Charles Dickens novel….. Bethel Park’s Matthew Hughes made a change one day…. I’ll come back to that moment later….. Matthew Hughes first came to PVS in the spring of 2018. He was referred in from the soccer field by the Hladio family. He and his twin brother signed up for hitting lessons. He was 10 years old. Matthew and Andrew did their best and for a while, they progressed nicely. One day I watched Matthew throw a ball back towards his brother with his left arm. I saw something I rarely see- and never from an 11 or 12 year old. His arm rose in what reminded me of many experts call the The Stretch-Shortening Cycle . “SSC” is an active stretch (eccentric contraction) of a muscle followed by an immediate shortening (concentric contraction) of that same muscle. I asked him to do it again and he did. I asked if he had any throwing coaches ever? And he said: “no”…….this is how he threw ……I was looking at a natural. I sent a video of him throwing to all of my professional contacts and pitchers. They all marveled at what his arm naturally did. Paul Nyman told me “you have something there.” That day I posted on Instagram and Facebook what I saw and predicted that he would be a Division 1 pitcher some day. I had to convince Mr. & Mrs. Hughes that while he should continue to hit on his own time……I’d rather the family spend their money on The PVS WPIAL group rather than hitting lessons. This is why I’m a bad businessman 👨‍💼…..Scrapping the lessons in favor of the WPIAL group would cost about 40% less……but I didn’t care about the money. I saw something special. I told the family the truth. Essentially Matthew connected momentum in his delivery at a pro level….. but needed a ton of work besides that. So Matthew joined the WPIAL group… At first, he wasn’t exactly all-in to what we were doing. He would go through the motions like alot of people that don’t last at PVS. He had trouble fitting in. The “Dude Perfect” tshirts and mismatched shorts let everyone know Matthew wasn’t exactly one of the “cool kids” … but he loved baseball and I saw that whip in his arm and kept pressing him. He kept playing travel ball against my wishes. He Had some bad luck with teams he was on and sort of just went with the flow for about a year. To fire up not only Matthew but other guys that were perhaps not working as hard as they could……We came up with a “30 day challenge.” This 30 day challenge measured everybody on day one with a multitude of metrics. At the end of the 30 day challenge we would retest and the winner would get A prize. Matthew finished dead last. He got some shit for it from the guys. He didn’t handle it well and frankly a lot of the other guys in the gym did not handle it well either. I had to have a conversation with the family because they were concerned about the atmosphere in the gym. The family and I had a productive conversation. I pleaded my case for him to stay and he did. I honestly wasn’t sure if he would come back in after that conversation. I looked at him and having been a former Bethel Park assistant Varsity coach……said to him “this is probably a good thing.”