Meet the Coach
"We’ve curated a competitive but caring culture that has organically brought the best out of these athletes and set them up to succeed while also rooting for the other members of our B&B family. They push each other with competitive fire but also have each other’s backs. I couldn’t be prouder of how that has developed." - Dan Hennigan
About the Founder, Dan Hennigan
Dan Hennigan is a seasoned baseball hitting coach who has trained everyone from aspiring high school players to professional major league athletes, but he wasn’t always a coach. He was playing the field himself in college, learning the game and racking up various All-Conference, All-Region, and All-American nods.
What began as a collegiate baseball career at Franklin Pierce University soon turned into a signed contract with the Somerset Patriots. Later, he went on to play for the Camden Riversharks of the Atlantic League until the Dodgers purchased his contract.
During his time in professional baseball, he played hard and fast, only slowing down when faced with injuries that required him to pause. The downtime from his injuries allowed him the space to reflect on his baseball career and the knowledge he’d gained from years of lessons that hitting coaches were teaching him.
A light bulb lit, and he decided to reinvent his level of understanding around the game. For the next few years, he studied the art of hitting. Dan picked big-league hitters’ brains and learned from physics professors, physical trainers, kinesiologists, and elite athletics strength coaches.
Today, Dan uses the insight he gained on and off the field to inspire, motivate, challenge, and elevate his students.
Dan currently serves as the hitting analyst for the Minnesota Twins.
Why Brain & Barrel Is Successful
As a baseball hitting coach, Dan’s main goal is for his students to succeed and become elite athletes.
What makes Brain & Barrel so successful is Dan’s dual role as a hitting coach and mental development coach. While other coaches focus purely on hitting hard, Dan fills in the gaps with a refined holistic approach that builds fundamental confidence in each student’s ability to perform in the cage and on the field.
Dan and his team of trainers understands that everyone has a different goal when they walk in to our facility, so we build out a plan to reach those goals through game-style profiling to enable your chances of getting drafted.
We know that to achieve true success, regardless of how long you’ve been swinging, you must focus on seven fundamentals: strength, core development, mental agility, balance, mobility, developed mechanics, and total power output.
When biomechanics, basic physics, and body awareness merge, that’s how records are set and how athletic victory is achieved. We can talk all day long, but numbers speak for themselves.