PABaseball posted:It probably isn't a huge deal, but at the same time most guys batting .200 in HS aren't getting recruited.
To cabbage's point- they don't mean absolutely nothing either. They usually don't matter because most guys are hitting well over .300 against mostly non college level pitching. The idea is that the colleges sift thru the players batting over .300 and determine which ones are actually college players and which are the product of weak pitching.
2019 received a call from his college coach last year. Asked why one of his teammates (who was on their radar) had only thrown 15 innings thru 20 games. So you never know who is checking in. Deal Breaker? Maybe not. Red Flag? Absolutely.
Certainly not many .200 hitters are getting recruited but this is because there probably is a reason a guy is hitting .200. Most .200 hitters in HS simply suck, they have bad stats because they lack batspeed and hand eye coordination. The scout in the stands probably won't even look at his stats because he can see right away that the guy can't hit.
It probably is hard to be a .200 hitter against high school defenses if you are a good hitter even over a sub 100 AB sample.