I'm wondering whether anyone on this board has had experience with or knows anyone whose son has taken a year off between high school and college, before going on to play baseball for a juco (or 4 year school either). I saw some discussion of "grayshirting" which has some similarities, but I'm talking about a complete break from academics. If so, what did your kid do to keep playing/developing while out of school? Would you do it again? There are several kids from my son's high school who are going this route this year and a couple more who have done it in the past few years, and so far it has seemed very successful academically--but none of them is an athlete. I can see my son benefitting from this kind of stopping out, especially since he is roughly a year behind his age group in physical development, and the extra year growing and gaining strength would probably do him as a lot of good from a baseball standpoint. (His father grew 3 inches in college.) Any words of wisdom?
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