The process can be overwhelming and intimidating. After a weekend at PG I commented to my kid, “You’re known in our area. But I just saw 500 kids just like you.” How are you going to separate yourself from the pack?”
In the big picture you don’t separate yourself from the pack. But you do for certain college programs. It’s important to figure out which schools it might be and how you’re going to do it. Everyone focuses on baseball talent. It is the primary focus. But a player may separate himself by how he carries himself on the field or maturity in a conversation with a coach. No kid ever got recruited for a firm handshake and looking a coach in the eye and calling him “sir.”. But it might be a difference maker. There are personal mannerisms that display confidence kids don’t think about that coaches notice. It’s hard to miss a kid who is always hustling from the top step of the dugout.