Baseball · Player Development · Southwest Florida

Become the arm they hand the ball to .

Pitching development in Southwest Florida, coached by a former Major League arm. Fundamentals first, mindset always, winning culture on every rep.

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MLB: Former Major League pitcher
2018–2021: Houston Astros
102.4: MPH fastball, top recorded
SWFL: Where he coaches now

Career details above are drawn from public records. Everything else on this page is placeholder content for demonstration.

What the program is built on

Three things, in this order

An ace isn’t built by radar gun alone. The work starts with what repeats under pressure.

Fundamentals

Delivery, balance, direction, release. The mechanics that hold up in the seventh inning, not just the first bullpen.

Mindset

How you handle a leadoff walk, a bad call, a long inning. The part of pitching that never shows up in a box score.

Winning Culture

Standards you keep when nobody is watching. Show up early, compete every rep, leave the place better.

Pillar names are taken from the House of Aces Instagram bio. The descriptions under them are placeholder copy written for this demo — Josh writes the real ones.

Programs

Pick your lane

Every card below is a placeholder. This is the structure — the real program names, what’s included and what it costs are Josh’s to fill in. Nothing here is a real House of Aces offer.

1-on-1 Pitching

Sample

Private session, one athlete, one coach. Delivery work, bullpen, and a plan to take home.

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$——per session · price TBD

Small Group

Sample

Two to four arms at similar levels. Same coaching, shared reps, competitive edge built in.

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$——per athlete · price TBD

Velocity Block

Sample

A multi-week block for arms chasing more out of the delivery, with arm care built into every week.

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$——per block · price TBD

Mindset & Compete

Sample

The between-the-ears work. Routine, breath, reset, and how to attack a hitter when it’s not your day.

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$——price TBD

Team & Staff

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Travel and high school staffs. Come to the team, work the whole pitching group, leave the coaches a system.

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$——per visit · price TBD

Camps & Clinics

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One-day events. Bigger groups, stations, and a chance to see a lot of arms in a short window.

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$——per athlete · price TBD

Six cards is an example layout. Add, remove or rename them in minutes — the page reflows on its own.

Fundamentals. Mindset. Winning culture.

The three words already in the House of Aces bio

Start here

Four taps to a session request

No DMs. No back-and-forth. Answer four short questions and the page builds the request for you — and shows Josh exactly what he needs to know before the athlete walks in.

Start here Step 1 of 4

This flow is fully working in your browser and sends nothing anywhere. In a live build it would create the request, text Josh, and put the athlete on the calendar automatically.

After the first session

Every athlete gets a page

A training business isn’t appointments — it’s progress. Each athlete gets a private page: what was worked on, what was measured, what’s next. Parents can see it. That’s what makes families re-book without being asked.

No athlete loaded Empty state — this is how a new athlete starts

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Session notes

Notes from each session appear here. Nothing logged yet.

The toggle above fills the page with invented sample numbers so you can see the layout populated. They are not real results and do not belong to any athlete.

The coach

Josh James

Right-handed pitcher. Drafted by Houston, made the big leagues, and now coaches in Southwest Florida. Below is only what is on the public record — the story in his own words goes here.

Photo slot A real photo of Josh coaching goes here. Deliberately left empty — we do not generate images of real people.

MLBPitched in the Major Leagues for the Houston Astros, 2018–2021. Debut September 1, 2018.

102.4Top recorded fastball velocity, in miles per hour.

158Career Major League strikeouts, at a rate of 13.3 per nine innings.

2018Named Houston Astros Minor League Pitcher of the Year.

34thRound selected by Houston in the 2014 MLB Draft — 1,006th overall.

Why this section is short. Every line above comes from public records and nothing else has been added. No testimonials, no athlete results, no client counts, no ratings — because none of those exist yet and we will not invent them. Once real families give real feedback, this is where it goes.

Why we built this

The gap

Right now every interested family has to already follow the Instagram account, then tap out to a third-party signup sheet. Here is the same journey, side by side.

Today

Instagram → signup sheet

Only findable by people who already follow the account.
The bio link is a generic signup sheet, not a booking system.
A slot sheet takes a name and a time — not age, level, position or goal.
A sheet holds no session notes or history, so there is nothing to send a parent afterwards.

This page

One link, four taps

A real address you can put on a car window, a flyer, or a jersey sleeve.
Programs, structure and the request form all live in one place.
Every request arrives fully qualified — age, level, focus, goal.
Each athlete gets a progress page, so the next booking asks for itself.

Left column describes only the public House of Aces Instagram account and the signup sheet its bio links to, as of August 2026 — not how Josh runs his sessions. It is not a criticism, it is the opportunity.

Under the hood

What else ships with it

The page is the visible part. These are the pieces that make it actually get found and actually save time.

Found on Google

Local business markup, a Google Business Profile, and pages that answer what SWFL parents actually search for.

Texts, not DMs

A request comes in, Josh gets a text with the whole picture. Confirmations and reminders send themselves.

Progress pages

Every athlete’s sessions, notes and measurements in one private link parents can open on a phone.

Reviews on autopilot

After a session, a one-tap link asks the parent for a Google review. That is what builds the map ranking.

Sample structured dataShown as an example — not active on this demo page

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "SportsActivityLocation",
  "name": "House of Aces",
  "description": "Baseball player development in Southwest Florida.",
  "areaServed": { "@type": "AdministrativeArea", "name": "Southwest Florida" },
  "sport": "Baseball",
  "telephone": "__ real number goes here __",
  "address":   "__ real address goes here __",
  "openingHours": "__ real hours go here __"
}

This block is deliberately inert on the demo, and the whole page is set to noindex, so it can never appear in search or be mistaken for the real business.

Ready when you are

Get on the mound

Answer four questions and the request is done. Josh reviews every one personally before anything is confirmed.

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Demo placeholder — the buttons scroll to the sample request flow on this page. No real booking calendar is connected and nothing is sent to anyone.