@anotherparent posted:You raise an interesting issue. I had always thought of all those metrics as being used for recruiting for the next level (whatever that next level was). Now I'm trying to remember whether my son's HS coach took those measurements, and if so, what he did with them.
Other than having justification to cut kids (and why can't you cut them without knowing this data?), how else would you use them? To make a lineup? Positioning (stronger infield arm plays 3b or ss)? How do these numbers relate to what you see when they practice, which is presumably how you've been doing it all these years?
Sometimes additional data helps the coach when the parent of a cut kid runs to the AD to complain.