TPM posted:CaCO3Girl posted:TPM posted:To the person who removed this article after they posted, you are doing a great disservice to all of the parents of younger players (2019, 2020, 2021 etc.) who post here. These are the things you should be sharing. Older article but excellent. Not sure why you removed it but if I could guess i would be close.
For anyone interested, the article is "How to waste money on showcases and get injured". Maybe you could add this to the group pms that you share. Its probably a lot more valuable than anything you hafe ever read.
Being one of those 2020 parents I just googled the article.
http://ericcressey.com/basebal...oney-and-get-injured
The gist is that showcases that fall during a players "down time" is not a good idea because you can't be "on" all year long, it's unhealthy.
I have a question. Would this statement made in the article still be true?
"I can honestly say that in all my years of training baseball players, I’ve only seen one kid who was “discovered” at a showcase. And, frankly, it occurred in December of his junior year, so those scouts surely would have found him during high school and summer ball; it wasn’t a desperate attempt to catch someone’s eye."
I read the article years ago and when it was posted today.
Here is the thing, I am not going to get into where a player gets discovered. Playing in tournaments is a lot different than off season showcases. I think many of us here have tried to get that point across.
Funny how we all see things differently, but as I always said, the folks of the younger set will realize how important this type of info will be someday when their player needs some major surgery..BEFORE HE RECEIVES A COMMITMENT.
This man trains ML players, I doubt we know more than him.
I also am curious why it was removed after the poster even admitted he understood.
It has also been discussed many times on this board that things have changed over the last 5 years. This article is 6 years old. I was wondering if showcases played a bigger part now in most people's recruiting path than they did 6 years ago.