Originally Posted by jolietboy:
Originally Posted by RedFishFool:
In a take-off of "does a falling tree make a noise in the woods ...."
It doesn't matter as much how hard you throw if no one is around to watch you do it!
You make an excellent point. And reading your son's history really augments the belief that getting exposure I s a really big deal in baseball. They just don't have the same budgets as football or basketball and you have to find ways to get in front of them. The fact that a kid can throw 90 during or right after his sophomore year and not yet be recruited is proof positive of that in my opinion.
He had been 16 less than a month when he hit 90 (per JUGS) in June, 2013. Due to the fact that he didn't get any notice (and I mean none) in Summer of 2013 and because of all the forum reading that I did on this website, a decision was made to play out of town in the Summer of 2014. Particularly, we wanted to go to the big PG Tournament in Atlanta. The right people saw him in the right places this Summer.