Joe Palazzolo is going into his third season with the San Francisco Giants organization. He spent the last two seasons with Short Season Salem-Keizer. Before coming to the Giants, he was an intern with the Arizona Diamondbacks organization in 2017 and a Short Season Strength Coach in Batavia, NY with the Miami Marlins in 2016. Prior to working in professional baseball he worked as a Strength and Conditioning Coach at Aurora University in Illinois and started as a High School Strength Coach with Champaign Central in Illinois. He has a Masters degree in Kinesiology from A.T. Still University. A native of Champaign, Illinois, Joe and his wife Amanda currently reside in Gilbert, AZ.

Topics covered in this episode:

-His best professional baseball story

-Being named Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year twice

-Functional Range Conditioning (FRC)

Quotes:

-"If you can't get that buy-in, then you're not going to have the same energy and effort put into that program" (9:36)

-"We're blessed enough to wear a logo on our chest everyday" (13:18)

-"Books are about the cheapest education that you can get" (14:33)