Ryan is the Vice President of ArmCare.com and is a multi-dimensional sports scientist, coach, educator, and research author. Ryan started his coaching career as an assistant coach for the University at Buffalo’s baseball team where he assisted in strength and conditioning and was a first base coach. He later was hired by the St. Louis Cardinals as a short-season strength coach working in Batavia, New York in 2007.

In his first year coaching professional athletes the team did not have any surgical injuries and won the New York Penn League Championship. In 2012, Ryan was hired by the Baltimore Orioles as the Roving Coordinator, Assistant MLB Strength Coach, and Athletic Performance Analyst. He was involved in training healthy and injured athletes at the MLB level, ensured strength and conditioning approaches were uniform throughout the organization, identified injury trends, evaluated athletic performance by position and completed specialized projects as assigned by the Vice President of Baseball Operations.

Ryan later was hired by the Los Angeles Angels as the Player Performance Coordinator that included overseeing the minor league strength and conditioning program, athletic profiling in scouting and transfer of training science. From this position, Ryan was promoted to the Director of Performance Integration for the team and directed the organization’s strength and conditioning and sports science efforts with a focus on improving athletic qualities that transfer to on-field performance, evaluating talent, and created and oversaw the organization’s multidimensional monitoring platform for athletes called the 360 Athlete Approach. For all positions, injury list days were reduced by 40% and within pitchers, injury list days were reduced by 50%, 65% at the MLB level with no surgical injuries for two years.

Ryan completed his PhD at the University at Buffalo studying altered stride lengths in baseball pitchers, reflecting lower body movement compensations, and their biomechanical and physiologic effects on baseball pitching performance. Ryan was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania with a concentration in studying throwing arm health and was a main contributor in starting the Penn Throwing Clinic which provided biomechanical screening and musculoskeletal evaluations for throwing athletes in the greater Philadelphia area. Ryan has a passion to enrich the baseball world and is on a mission to ensure player development considers individual needs for performance enhancement and to make baseball a much safer sport for athletes of all ages.

Jordan is the Director of Pitching Performance with ArmCare.com and has been coaching baseball for over a decade between High School, Collegiate, Private, and Professional baseball. During his coaching tenure he has focused heavily on pitching and was fortunate to be mentored by Tom House. During his playing career he was able to play internationally with the Tijuana Cimarrones as well as in Independent Baseball for multiple organizations.

He also played collegiately at Vanguard University of Southern California as well as playing under ABCA Hall of Fame Coach Jim “Skip” Walker at the College of Southern Idaho as well as he played at Taylorsville High School under Utah Hall of Fame Coach Steve Cramblitt. With the opportunity to play under such great coaches it was only natural for Jordan to continue to be a student of the game and continue to research the best ways to improve player development. This desire for increased understanding of the game led him to get his Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology with an emphasis in Exercise Science from Vanguard University along with a Masters Degree in Coaching from Concordia University of Irvine.

After playing collegiately for 4 seasons along with professionally for 4 seasons Jordan went on to coach at his Alma Mater of Vanguard University where he took on the role of Pitching Coach as well as helped greatly in the recruiting of the baseball program. Jordan has been involved with the Vanguard University baseball program as a pitching coach and pitching consultant for over 8 seasons. Through his help, Vanguard was able to develop into one of the top NAIA programs in the nation and during his time had draft picks Kamakani Usui(TOR/SF), Sean Isaac(LAA/MIL), Jose Rojas(LAA), Hector Camacho(ATL), and Brandon Sandoval(LAA). Players that went on to play Independent Professional Baseball during his time included Clayton Voechting(INT), Scott Torrey(PEC), Matt Sillberman(FL), and Marshall McKinnon(INT).

During his time as the pitching coach at Vanguard University he also worked in conjunction with Tom House where he worked with great players such as Barry Zito, Joe Blanton, Ryan Rowland-Smith, Ryan Sherriff, Cole Hamels, and many others. After coaching at Vanguard he went onto the Los Angeles Angels and served in multiple roles from Professional Scouting, Amateur Scouting, Assistant Programs Coordinator, Pitching Analyst, as well as an Affiliate Pitching Coach. Through these roles he was involved in every aspect of player development and front office and has led to a well rounded experience and understanding of how professional baseball not only chooses players, but develops them.

During his time with the Angels he worked closely with marquee players such as Tyler Skaggs, Junichi Tazawa, Shohei Ohtani, Justin Anderson, Keynan Middleton, Jeremy Beasley, and Jake Jewell. He was integral to Ryan Crotin’s work in the Performance Integration Department and contributed to a process that decreased injuries while increasing performance. Jordan still works closely with Ryan at ArmCare.com and is a co-author in a research publication with Ryan concerning baseball performance and MLB amateur draft projection. Jordan continuously looks for validated ways to improve the player development and health that is individualized for each athlete.