Eric Cressey

Eric Cressey is one of the most respected names in baseball performance, player health, and long-term athletic development. As President and Co-Founder of Cressey Sports Performance and Director of Player Health and Performance for the New York Yankees, Eric has spent nearly two decades working at the intersection of strength and conditioning, biomechanics, throwing development, injury prevention, and high-performance baseball.

Eric co-founded Cressey Sports Performance in 2007 and has helped grow CSP into one of the premier baseball development environments in the country, with facilities in Hudson, Massachusetts, and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. While his work has included athletes from youth sports through the professional and Olympic levels, he is best known for his extensive work in baseball. More than 100 professional baseball players train with Eric and the CSP staff during a typical offseason, with athletes representing organizations throughout Major League Baseball.

Over the years, Eric has worked with some of the most accomplished players in the game, including Cy Young Award winners and Major League All-Stars. His longstanding work with pitchers such as Corey Kluber helped establish CSP as a destination for professional players seeking individualized approaches to physical preparation, throwing, movement quality, recovery, and durability. In 2017, both American League Cy Young Award winner Corey Kluber and National League Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer trained at Cressey Sports Performance.

In 2020, the New York Yankees selected Eric to lead a comprehensive restructuring of the organization's Player Health and Performance department. As Director of Player Health and Performance, he oversees areas including strength and conditioning, athlete assessment, performance technology, facility and equipment development, continuing education, and the integration of player health and performance resources throughout the organization. He continues to hold that position with the Yankees while serving as President of Cressey Sports Performance.

Eric's philosophy has long centered on individualization. Rather than applying the same training model to every athlete, his approach examines how an athlete moves, how his body is built, the specific demands of his position, his training and injury history, and where he is in his long-term development. That philosophy has made CSP particularly influential in the development of pitchers and throwing athletes, whose performance requires a careful integration of strength, mobility, throwing workload, mechanics, recovery, and arm health.

His impact on baseball extends well beyond the athletes he trains directly. Eric is an internationally recognized educator, author, speaker, researcher, and consultant whose work has helped shape the way coaches and performance professionals think about throwing athletes. He has authored five books and hundreds of articles on strength and conditioning, shoulder health, athletic development, and baseball performance, and has educated coaches and practitioners throughout the sports-performance industry.

Eric's academic background reflects the same evidence-based approach. He earned a master's degree in Kinesiology with a concentration in Exercise Science from the University of Connecticut and completed undergraduate degrees in Exercise Science and Sports and Fitness Management at the University of New England. He is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

For Time to Sign student-athletes, Eric and the Cressey Sports Performance network provide access to a development environment built around the same principles used with athletes at the highest levels of baseball. From strength and movement development to pitching, hitting, defense, biomechanics, and long-term physical preparation, the emphasis is on understanding the individual athlete and building a development plan around what that player actually needs.

That relationship reinforces a central component of the Time to Sign model: recruiting and development cannot be separated. Exposure can create an opportunity, but continued development determines what a player is ultimately prepared to do with it. Eric's career has been built around helping athletes understand that difference and creating the individualized systems necessary for them to continue progressing from one level of the game to the next.