Reply to "D3 recruits throwing 87-88"

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@3and2Fastball posted:
In my kids summer league there are three 2022 D3 commits who throw upper 80’s. He said he knows of about 10 others who will step on a campus this fall as freshman who throw that hard.
If I’m not mistaken that was something you very rarely saw even 5 years ago. Kids like that before would go D2 or D1 mid major. Just another example of the after effects of the COVID Roster Logjams, as well as how pitching velocity is increasing across all of Baseball

I can't speak to 5 years ago, but I know 10 years ago there were a bunch of D3 commits (to top 20 D3 programs) that I knew throwing upper 80's. This isn't something new. A handful of them wanted a D3 experience, and put academics ahead of athletics. If my son had not selected a D1 HA for its engineering program, his backup was a D3 HA based (again) on their engineering program. There were a bunch of guys just like him. He was fortunate to have those choices.

Just my experience.

6/20/228:11 AM

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