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Wesley, As a 16 year old, you have a good base to work with. I would recommend three things immediately: 1. Lose the Knee Savers. This should allow you to get lower in your stance. Also along that line...get more flexible in your hip flexors. Take a yoga class. You have a pretty good sized frame and you will need to present a low target at times. Flexibility is very important. 2. Find a long toss or arm strengthening/stabilizing program. We use Jamie Evans' Velo-City (...

Has your velocity been clocked on your throw down?

Originally Posted by redbird5: Wesley, As a 16 year old, you have a good base to work with. I would recommend three things immediately: 1. Lose the Knee Savers. This should allow you to get lower in your stance. Also along that line...get more flexible in your hip flexors. Take a yoga class. You have a pretty good sized frame and you will need to present a low target at times. Flexibility is very important. 2. Find a long toss or arm strengthening/stabilizing program. We use Jamie Evans'...

Originally Posted by CaCO3Girl: Has your velocity been clocked on your throw down? I have been clocked at 75 mph.

Originally Posted by standballdad: Originally Posted by redbird5: Wesley, As a 16 year old, you have a good base to work with. I would recommend three things immediately: 1. Lose the Knee Savers. This should allow you to get lower in your stance. Also along that line...get more flexible in your hip flexors. Take a yoga class. You have a pretty good sized frame and you will need to present a low target at times. Flexibility is very important. 2. Find a long toss or arm...

Nick, where do you live in Michigan? I lived in Adrian and graduated from MSU. We had 100 players for the Freshman team, only 5 played 4 years later in the College WS. Our roster included three Football QB [Rose Bowls] and one Hockey player. "the name of the game is to compete and play" Bob

Hi Nick, Welcome to the site. This site can be helpful to you in many ways but probably not this one. Too many variables. Even within each geographical region, there are high schools of widely different sizes, different levels of quality programs and varying degrees of interest. Many HS's don't even have a freshman program... some don't even have JV. Just ask some of the other players in the program. It doesn't really matter, though. Regardless of whether it is 16 or 160, you just need to be...

I am going to be trying out for my schools freshman team this spring and was wondering how many students I can expect to be competing against for the 16 available spots on the roster. How many tryout participants should I expect there to be in a class of 220 students? I know that every school will be different but what would be a good estimate?

Hi Nick, are you in high school? How many teams does your school field? My son's high school has 450 per class, some years they only have a varsity and JV team and no freshman team because not enough players (freshmen are put on JV). When they do have a freshman team, they only cut kids who have never played before, or who have bad attitudes. So it really depends on your community, and which of the youth baseball players plan to do so in high school, vs doing other things in the spring.

Don’t concern yourself how many players tryout. Be prepared. Put in the work. Show up for tryouts in mid season form. Do your best. Never stop hustling. Then, you will get what you deserve. Don't practice to be good enough to make the team. Practice to be as good of a player as you can be on the team. Most importantly, constantly strive to be better tomorrow than you are today. And the next day, the next week, the next month, the next year.

Son's graduating class had close to 700 with maybe 60 - 70 trying out for freshman ball. Son went in having the confidence he was able to make the team, just his sights were set on the JV team as a freshman. As others have mentioned, do what you can control. Put in the hard work and when tryouts come work and practice harder than everyone else. Believe in yourself, you can never go wrong.

It depends, my son's school is like Trust in Him, all boys HS with >500 student per grade. His frosh tryouts had almost 70 kids. His friend goes to a coed school with less than 100 students per grade so the baseball tryout was for "JV" and you made the team as long as you sign up on time. As many stated here, your focus should be the best player on the field. Come to the tryouts prepared and hustle your arse off...thing you CAN control.

Turns out my school might not even have enough players for a freshman team. I was worried about the wrong things.

That can happen a lot. You worry about you. Control what YOU can control--and that's you!!! Good luck.

So, then, you'll be trying out for JV? Good luck!