Cleveland Dad,
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I am really excited for the season to start...
Roll call...
I have a 2019 catcher on high school varsity. Won State last year, now "rebuilding." A lot of new starters this year. First game against another school on 2/23. What about the rest of you?
MomLW posted:I am really excited for the season to start...
Roll call...
I have a 2019 catcher on high school varsity. Won State last year, now "rebuilding." A lot of new starters this year. First game against another school on 2/23. What about the rest of you?
I have a 2020 C, RHP, OF on JV, first game is tomorrow 
Youngest son is a 2017 and one of only 2 returning starters, so it looks like a rebuilding year, but you never know. With promising younger guys and older guys who'll finally get their chance, maybe they can surprise everyone and win league for 3rd time over my son's 4 years on the team. It'll be fun no matter what -- unless the season gets wiped out by the continuing deluge hitting the left coast.
Oldest (2017) and second oldest (2019) are on Varsity together, which if only for convenience sake is great, since 7th grader is playing for the school's intermediate team now, too. Lots of seniors on vars but not much depth and our pitching is suspect, so we'll see. 1-1 so far in preseason tournament games, and have another tournament this weekend.
2018 catcher/infield. Several Srs. in front of him, but he "ain't sitting." Old coach quit. Didn't find new coach until Dec. Conference shake up -- smaller schools gone. Now play 3 game series in one of the toughest baseball conferences. New pitching rules -- not enough pitchers. Might be a struggle. Should be interesting.
Uncommitted 2018 about to begin 2nd year as starting varsity SS - Can't wait for it to get started (next week). Lost quite a bit of talent from last year to graduation. This year will have 13 Sr's, 6 Jr's and 1 sophomore. Hoping a few of the kids new to varsity can contribute 'a lot' or it may be a long season (lol).
2018 P/OF. We return 8 starters from a team that went far in state tournament. Will be one of the favorites to win it all this year with only two senior starters. We also just replaced our 36 yr veteran coach with a 24yo after he retired. Entirely different coaching styles. Should be a fun season.
2020 P/IF on JV. Played 3rd scrimmage last night. (Played at Deer Park HS, Andy Pettitte's old school. Thanks Andy for the wonderful field). No kid has pitched more than one inning, lots of rotation in the field. To be 15 again, hanging with your teammates, bus rides across town, getting to play baseball. Definitely having fun.
Will catch some varsity games if we can. District has the number one and five preseason teams in Texas in largest class. Should be some good baseball.
Season starts March 13th. Coach is in his 3 year with only two wins so far. So no expectations to say the least. Hopefully son can miss enough bats this year to get a few wins. He's a 2019 and a returning starter so he's a lot more relaxed not being the new kid. I'm just hoping his arm feels good heading into summer ball lol. At least we have a couple stud players in our district that will be fun to watch.
In for next year. Son is 2021 C/1B/RHP.
Looking forward to following along and reading about everyone's season.
After taking off last spring and missing the program's implosion, my 2017 is back with the team and trying to help get it heading back in the right direction.
It's not a young team, but most of the players have limited experience at the varsity level. My son was elected team captain, and he is trying to set an example of how things should be done as opposed to how they had been done for the last couple of years.
Most of all he is looking to have fun this season, regardless of the record.
My 2017 had their first scrimmage last night with our second scrimmage coming up on Friday against the team we beat to win CIF-CCS last year. We lost our stud to UCLA but we are returning 12 seniors/Juniors that were either starters or saw significant playing time last year. Of those -- 6 are D1 commits, 2 have D1 walk-on spots, and 3 are set to play for quality D3 programs. The boys are hoping for a 3-peat for the CCS championship.
Regardless -- just going to enjoy watching my son play out his last year in high school. Watching game be streamed over the Internet next year won't be nearly as much fun.
We're building, not rebuilding. Our program started in 2013. This year we have better talent than last year, but they're all pretty raw. We have 3 guys who can play when last year we had none, so there's no where to go but up.
2019 LHP/1b on varsity with 2 strong senior leaders but most of those expected to contribute will come from his sophomore class. These kids have won state titles in little league and county titles in middle school, so looking to make the state tournament this year in a year where it seems most schools had a big senior class last year and are rebuilding
2020 LHP/1B with tryouts this Saturday unless the weatherman's prediction of heavy rain comes true! Cannot wait for his first HS season no matter which team he ends up on. First game scheduled on 2-28 so they don't have much time to select the team and get practicing.
2020Mom posted:2020 LHP/1B with tryouts this Saturday unless the weatherman's prediction of heavy rain comes true! Cannot wait for his first HS season no matter which team he ends up on. First game scheduled on 2-28 so they don't have much time to select the team and get practicing.
Tell him to take a raincoat!
From here, BTW; great blog if you like reading and/or knowing about weather. http://weatherwest.com/
2018 starts HS practice/tryouts on 3 March...was out all last spring with a broken hand (broke it on the first varsity scrimmage), so is hoping to stay healthy this year.
Tryouts for Ohio start Monday! Hoping for unseasonable weather (which is predicted!) so the 5:30 AM (!!) indoor tryouts have a possibility of being held outdoors after school. As long as basketball is still playing, baseball get the unfortunate 5:30-7:00 morning gym slot all next week!