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I assume you’re asking on behalf of your son. What you see at the elite levels of D1 (the post season tournament) is not representative of all college baseball. But at every level coaches want solid contact. Having a high batting average in high school ball doesn’t matter in recruiting unless you’re making hard contact.

Dinking and dunking hits and outrunning mediocre high school infield arms will not impress college coaches. They project a hitter’s swing against the pitching velocity of the college competition they compete against.

Currently at the D1 level due to extended Covid eligibility and a ten round draft  there are many 23yo and 24yo players who normally would have run out of eligibility by now. As UCLA coach John Savage said recently, “There’s a lot of “man” power in college baseball with all the physically developed older players.”

Last edited by RJM
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