CaCO3Girl posted:3and2Fastball posted:JV is about development.
You know for a fact that none of the kids were/are lazy? Everyone of them is working on Baseball 3-4 times a week outside of team practices & games? Working on swing mechanics and fielding techniques?
Nope, no outside baseball apart from the school. Batting cages are open, they all had a code, but no travel ball and no private lessons from January-April. Head coaches rules.
Yeah, OK. But my point is they need to put in the time on their own. Not at Travel Ball or lessons, on their own, working on their hitting and fielding, getting their reps in outside of team practice.
A vast majority of the players that are playing high level D1 or getting drafted were doing that in high school. They didn't get to where they did just from "talent".
It is one of the things that drives me crazy about high school players. Here's just one example: a friend of mine's son started on Varsity at Shortstop as a Junior, made a bunch of errors, got moved to right field. Dad is complaining to me about how the kid doesn't get enough Grounders at practice and how could the coach expect him to do better if he isn't getting the practice reps.
I'm thinking, well how many grounders are you hitting him after practice? How bad does he want it? Baseball is a skill sport, requires lots of reps. Now as a Senior the kid is playing 1B