This is all interesting. My son is a left handed pitcher; was throwing at 82 at 15 & there were a lot of eyes, and began the spring of his JR year at 86. But he had very debilitating illness the spring of his JR year- (He lost 10 lbs of muscle) the most important time for a HS BB player who wants to play college.
He is just starting to throw 85, 86 again, and is topping out at 88.
His ball has lots of movement, and he has 3-4 really good pitches.
He's just turned 17; He's 6' 2 and is 198lbs,7% body fat; runs his 60 in 7.0 and isn't done growing yet; and (knock on wood) has never been injured or sore.
His fall ball team plays against JR Colleges, and College JV teams and he is striking people out, really has ever had only 1 earned run scored off of him- but yet the bites are mostly from DIII. The dI and DII schools invite him to come "for a 2nd look" but are very wishy washy..
They tell him they want him in the high 80's all of the time. After his illness, he was throwing 79. You'd think that going from 79 to 86 in 3 months would show great potential.
What gives?