Reply to "Good player but high school politics means no playing time"

GoHeels1,000+ posts

I think some folks misunderstood my meaning in regards to "athleticism, mechanics, translating to game play", etc. It occurs to me that I should have worded it differently.

My primary point is that college coaches can see a kids size, athleticism, mechanics, hands, etc, and project how that may translate to the college level. A spreadsheet with numbers on will not.

There are thousands of non-athletic kids who hit .450 in high school against poor pitching, squirrely bookkeeping, with horrible mechanics. There are also kids who face D1 pitching regularly, have fantastic measureables, along with great hands and mechanics who hit in the low .300s over a short 20-25 game season with only 60 ABs. Maybe they hit 8 missiles right at someone which prevented their batting average to be lower than the next guy.

Point is...the college coach can see the difference, and the latter player is getting their attention.

12/22/163:52 PM

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