Back in 2007, Rick Porcello, then a 17-year-old senior at Seton Hall Prep in West Orange, N.J., went 10-0 with a 1.20 ERA and 112 strikeouts in 70 innings. He carried his Pirates to the state championship and earned himself a Gatorade Player of the Year Award.
It was at the beginning of that stellar season that Porcello began training with fellow Seton Hall graduate Mickey Brueckner and at the end of it that he was drafted in the first round, 27th overall, by the Detroit Tigers. Porcello had so much success, both in the gym and on the field, with Brueckner that the relationship is still going strong 11 years later.