John Neagle

Bio

Coach Neagle returns for his third season as pitching coach.  He has spent 20 years in coaching and brings a wealth of experience at both the high school and college levels.  Most recently, he spent three years with the New Britain Bees.  Before that, he spent three years in the CCBL.  His teams have consistently made the playoffs. 

As a high school head and pitching coach, he has won numerous regular-season and playoff championships.  His teams have finished league first in ERA four times.  He has called 12 no-hitters and two perfect games.  He has coached many all-conference pitchers and sent more than fifty players off to play college baseball.  As a private lesson and college coach, he has coached many who have gone on to play professionally, including seven players drafted in 2025, as well as current major leaguer Brandyn Garcia of the Arizona Diamondbacks. 

As a lead instructor for Synergy Missions (Texas), he has helped run baseball camps in Northern Italy for the last few years. The goal of Synergy is to mentor young people while teaching the game of baseball.

He and his wife, Christy, have three adult children, and have hosted ten exchange students that they call “their other kids”.  They are passionate about local and world missions.  He has also coached basketball at the Master’s School in Simsbury, in the double AA/Nepsac conference, and among the dozens of players he has sent off to play college basketball is Andre Johnson of Bristol, a two-time national champion at UConn.  He played his college baseball at UConn-Hartford, where he was a middle infielder and pitcher.