Isaac Valdez just completed his second season as an assistant baseball coach for the Harper College baseball team. As an assistant for the Hawks, he is the hitting coach, recruiting coordinator, and is also responsible for developing infielders.
Valdez has dedicated his professional life to baseball and has been working as a full-time instructor since 2005. He opened his own instructional business, Around The Horn Baseball/Fastpitch Training, in September of 2010 in Chicago’s western suburbs.
With Around The Horn, Valdez created a Fall Instructional League, trained players all over the Midwest as well as players in the Cayman Islands and Dubai Baseball, and also developed relationships with park districts and local baseball organizations to run summer camps, programs and coaches clinics. Finally, he created and implemented 15-week offseason training programs for baseball organizations, which included programs for hitters, fielders, pitchers, coaches, and baserunning.
Prior to that, Valdez worked at the Chicago White Sox Training Academy where he led camps and classes. He also coached the White Sox 17U and 18U travel teams to back-to-back National Championships in 2005 and 2006. Valdez has worked alongside coaches and players at the professional level and has also sent numerous players to college and professional baseball and continues to work with professional players during the offseason.
Valdez is a native of Chicago and went to St. Laurence High School, where he is a member of the Sports Hall of Fame there. He played his collegiate ball at Kishwaukee College as a shortstop and third baseman.
