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Where is the self-assessment?

We've got more than a few 2022s nearby who are "verbally committed" to playing D3 baseball.

There's a subset in this group that check all of the following boxes:

+ Never played varsity baseball as a junior or played very little with varsity and had very bad results on the field.

+ Probably won't play much at all on varsity this year as a senior, if at all.

+ Never played on a high level travel team and usually played with the B or C level team in their travel organization.

+ Have no outstanding measurables and do not pass the eye test of being overly athletic.

+ The D3 team that they verbally committed to won 3 games or less in 2021.

It's pretty safe to assume what's going to happen in the 22-23 school year. They are going to get cut after fall workouts and be stuck at a school that they only picked because of baseball. Or, if they are a super academic, maybe they get carried on the roster to boost the program overall GPA. But, they will never play in a game.

At some point, shouldn't there be some honest self-evaluation by the kid or some objective counseling from the parent to prevent all this from happening?

Doesn't a light bulb come on that says "I can't even make my crappy High School team, so, why do I think that I can play at the collegeate level...even if it is a weak D3?"

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