Clinics and Lessons

Coach Herman Alvarado grew up in San Diego, CA and attended Montgomery High School and San Ysidro High School where he helped lead SYHS to a CIF Division II Championship in his senior year. Out of high school he attended and played baseball for Trinidad State Junior College as a utility player before transferring to Nyack College where he started as a shortstop and catcher and majored in Communications. Alvarado appeared in 93 career games, hit .348, recorded 119 hits, 16 doubles, four triples, three home runs, 11 stolen bases and 73 RBI. Following his collegiate career, he coached at the Perfect Game collegiate summer league.  Alvarado currently plays in the Mexican League for Pericos de Puebla as an infielder. 

Coach Robert Carrillo is our Director of Baseball, the head coach of Excel Baseball 2025 and Excel 9U teams as well as one of the best hitting instructors in San Diego.  Carrillo grew up in Chula Vista and graduated from Montgomery High School in 1998. He was the Metro Player of the Year in 1998 at MOH and still holds the single season home run record at 11 in a season. He was drafted in the 26th round by the Houston Astros in 1998 and played three seasons as a first baseman. He won the league championship in SingleA in 1991 in Martinsvillw, West Virginia and was a big part of that, going 4 for 7 with 5 RBI’s winning both games 4-1 and 4-2.  Carrillo has been coaching youth sports since 2004 and has been a travel baseball coach since 2010.