@CaliDad posted:One of the problems is that there are not enough mentors in club baseball and HS baseball. Too often coaches are just looking to promote that blue chip kid so they can hang another D-1 commit on their trophy case. Doesn't matter if that school or program is a good fit... just the D1 commit will do. A lot of the good character/hard working kids are being left to figure it out themselves because a lot of these coaches don't see the value of the HA school for their players. I really wish we lived in a world where the sentiments raised in this post were the normal and not the exception...
Your comment about lack of development in HS and club baseball is spot on. The reality is the the majority of HS and club coaches don’t know the game well enough to teach very much about it. As a parent your job is to find the ones that do have the knowledge and know how to teach. Easier said than done.