Reply to "HS Tryouts...how much does the actual tryout matter?"

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I agree with it depends. My son's HS has Freshman, JV and V baseball teams. It is a ~1800 student all boys parochial school that draw kids from all over the region and has competitive athletic programs. The Freshman BB tryout usually involves >60 students and rosters 20. Rarely players are pulled up to JV or V. My son went to their "summer camp" to "showcase" in front of his future coaches. The freshman coach did use the tryouts to better identify the backend of the roster. The studs were pretty obvious in size, speed, power, velo (pitchers) and pedigree (travel program). Lots of good kids were cut at frosh, JV and V.

2/23/2310:38 AM

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