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4 spots left on elite summer travel teams - DFW area
We have four remaining spots left on our summer teams. Nine or 10 tournaments, depending on team: 17U - Need one PO for an elite travel team 17U - Need one Infielder (SS, 2B, 3B) 16U - Need one PO for an elite 16U travel team 16U - Need one infielder OR outfielder for an elite 16U travel team If interested, contact 972-841-3744.
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Final Summer Select Team Tryouts 15U, 16U, 17U, 18U
Final Tryouts 15U-18U Marshals Summer 2018 teams SUMMER SELECT TEAM TRYOUTS WHAT: Marshals 15U-18U Tryouts WHEN: Saturday, January 20 TIME: 2:00 P.M. WHERE: Richardson Pearce High School Baseball Field 1600 N Coit Rd, Richardson, TX 75080 BRING: - Baseball appropriate clothing & gear - Water We are called the McKinney Marshals, but we have teams and athletes across the Metroplex and North Texas. Athletes come to play with us from across the state of Texas and Oklahoma. Teams practice in...
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Premier Summer Teams Tryouts McKinney Marshals
Final Tryouts 15U-18U Marshals Summer 2018 teams SUMMER SELECT TEAM TRYOUTS WHAT: Marshals 15U-18U Tryouts WHEN: Saturday, January 20 TIME: 2:00 P.M. WHERE: Richardson Pearce High School Baseball Field 1600 N Coit Rd, Richardson, TX 75080 BRING: - Baseball appropriate clothing & gear - Water We are called the McKinney Marshals, but we have teams and athletes across the Metroplex and North Texas. Athletes come to play with us from across the state of Texas and Oklahoma. Teams practice in...
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Premier summer teams North Texas - Marshals 15-18U
Final Tryouts 15U-18U Marshals Summer 2018 teams SUMMER SELECT TEAM TRYOUTS WHAT: Marshals 15U-18U Tryouts WHEN: Saturday, January 20 TIME: 2:00 P.M. WHERE: Richardson Pearce High School Baseball Field 1600 N Coit Rd, Richardson, TX 75080 BRING: - Baseball appropriate clothing & gear - Water We are called the McKinney Marshals, but we have teams and athletes across the Metroplex and North Texas. Athletes come to play with us from across the state of Texas and Oklahoma. Teams practice in...
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Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Hello, my 2019 1B/3B/P son has been invited to the Elite Camp at his dream D1 top academic college. He attended two previous camps there, the last at which both the hitting and the head coaches told him he would be hearing from them. But in looking at Perfect Game college commitments, this school already has nine 2019 commitments (none of them are 1B/3B). So, it seems like this school seriously recruiting him is a huge long shot at this point, and he has interest from a few other great D1...
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Tryouts for Marshals 13U-18U 2018 Teams
Tryouts for 13U-18U Marshals summer 2018 teams Saturday, Nov 4 , 2:00 p.m. WHAT: Marshals 15U-18U Tryouts WHEN: Sunday, September 10 TIME: 2:00 P.M. WHERE: Kelly Field 2000 Kelly Blvd., Carrollton TX BRING: - Baseball appropriate clothing & gear - Water We are called the McKinney Marshals, but we have teams and athletes across the Metroplex and North Texas. Athletes come to play with us from across the state of Texas and Oklahoma. Teams practice in a variety of locations across the DFW...
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John Danks...traded
Shucks! http://www.comcast.net/sports/mlb/index.jsp?cat=BASEBAL...06/12/23/548099.html
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Re: So you want an advantage?
Thanks Coach May. I forwarded on our remarks to the HS basebal coach when I read this the other day. When I stopped by last night at the hitting barn (thats what they call the hitting cages at the HS), Your words were in poster size, framed, on the wall. I saw 3 young freshman reading them as I was there. Once again your incredible words and thoughts will help young men succeed.
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Re: Lax
At my sons HS we have been struggling with this for years. Most the football players that are not linemen play lax now. They used to all play basebal. They have a winning tradition and have won more state championships than any team in Ohio. A lot of players get recruited to east coast schools to play. It does not help that middle school Lax is no cut. While baseball still is. Many parents see the scholarships and put their kids in lax instead of baseball. Once cuts happen in HS some try and...
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Re: Lax
Originally Posted by BishopLeftiesDad: At my sons HS we have been struggling with this for years. Most the football players that are not linemen play lax now. They used to all play basebal. They have a winning tradition and have won more state championships than any team in Ohio. A lot of players get recruited to east coast schools to play. It does not help that middle school Lax is no cut. While baseball still is. Many parents see the scholarships and put their kids in lax instead of...
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Re: Please help provide some direction?
Wow, lots of good info there. Sounds like a fellow parent trying to do the right things. My guy is at La Salle, also a Junior, PM me if you want to talk local stuff. Depending on what school your son is at, i.e. if its Bishop Hendricken, might determine whether or not his lack of Varsity play is a true determinant of value. My guy swung between JV and Varsity last year and that is based on having some talent in the face of a coach who is very loyal (and I agree with him!) to his upper...
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Re: Please help provide some direction?
No, he's not at Hendricken, but his varsity coach is also quite loyal to upperclassmen, to the point that even in blowout games last year, the "swing" players didn't get to swing. The only swing players who got any varsity time were those who were needed to fill-in for injured players. We registered him w/ NCAA a couple months ago. I've also created a spreadsheet and we did some collegeboard searches, as well as compiled lists of D1/2/3 schools. Then, like you, I've visited their websites to...
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Re: Please help provide some direction?
Thanks for this list. We'll likely target summer though to avoid conflicting with the end of basketball season. FYI, the URI April camp is for youngsters: 4/18 – 4/20 ~ Monday to Wednesday URI April Vacation Clinic Location: Beck Field, URI-Kingston Campus | Grades 1-8 It looks like this one might be better: Be A Ram High School Prospect Clinic 1 Grades 9-12 Location: Bill Beck Field, URI-Kingston Campus Tuesday, June 28, 2011 The College Baseball Coaches Camps look good too. I'll look at...
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Re: PG WWBA Georgia
Midlo i have not had poor encounters my 15yr old enjoyed playing in the 18u top 16 finish and playing in the 16u as well. I have attended these in various forms for years. trust me i dont want to name names but there are a lot of weak teams. Anyone from GA knows east cobb has about 2 very good teams and the rest are between good and very bad. Look at records from even local events much less national. It is not hard to get in the tourney. Also many places enter several teams say a a/b/c team.
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Re: Baseball Program Philosophy
Ironhorse- why the hostility? So what you are saying if a parent (you assume I am a parent of a high school kid, I am not) has a question about the program and a philosophy, then they are bad and the team does not need them? That is odd to say the least. This board has very good baseball minds and lots of coaches. I am not a great baseball coach/mind. I am looking feedback. Lots of folks responded about the 6 minute mile and now I get it and support it. I asked another question about how...
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Re: Baseball Program Philosophy
The hostility is because you have some sort of agenda here. You tried to bash a coach on one issue and got no real support. So you crawfished and tried to hammer another (much more fictional) issue. If a coach told you, in person, that he would not be instructing any kids this year, go straight to your AD. Period. I have a feeling this didn't actually happen. So you came to a message board. This all just sounds way too unbelievable. More than likely the issue is with you or the player, not...
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Re: Northwest Coach Resigns
I have to agree with both txbball14 and Haltom Scout. I am lucky, the head football coach I work with is great. We have partnered up very well I think. His dad coached baseball in college and even though he did not play, he is still a fan and understands. He comes to all home games and all the in town road games. We share quite a few players at Summit and the kids know that when it is football season the focus is football. When it is basebal season the focus is baseball. It is no coincidence...
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Re: Virginia HB273: Interscholastic activities; exclusive use of wood baseball bats
Gents, Very weak! FYI I am not a player (my time has come and gone). Please keep in mind the original point was the bill brought before the floor of our great state. I don't know about you but I am sick & tired of politicians grandstanding on issue they have no clue on. It is way to easy for these bone heads to jump on the soapbox "on behalf of the safety of our children". The reality is metal or wood basebal can be dangerous. Zero in on the pitcher and we all know that one day he might...
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Re: Players Missing Games
There is a point here that seems to be missed---the singers have not informed the baseball coach---the basebal coach heard it, in what appears to be a bad light,from the director of the chorus. What do you see wrong with this picture?
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Re: PAY FOR PLAY POLL
Sorry for you guys who all took this to the extreme. Who in the world would admit such thing like "PAY for PLAY"? I am only talk about close situations here. In a large class HS, except 2 or 3 outstanding players, I am sure from 4-12 are all fairly good, but you only got 9 spots on the field, so who would you start from #4 to #12 player? Most coaches would prefer the kids whose parents have been "involved" more with the team when the players are in the same talent level. This is the case not...
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
He is a 2019. Way too early to give up on the dream school, IMHO.
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Already having nine commits in your son's class provides an indication of where he stands. It doesn't matter they haven't offered any first or third baseman. Schools select baseball talent/athletes who can be moved around to different positions. They may have made offers to five shortstops they believe can be moved to any position. Corner infielders have to be mashers to be recruited. Or a shortstop pushed to the corner on their travel team by a superior talent. It's not time to give up.
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
I guess it would depend on the comment you made above: "He attended two previous camps there, the last at which both the hitting and the head coaches told him he would be hearing from them." So did he hear back from the head coach or recruiting coordinator within a week or so from the prior camp? While he is not yet a Junior and there are restrictions on contact, as you noted, the school already has 9 commitments from his class. So they have clearly found a way to connect with those players.
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Get in front of as many college recruiters and MLB scouts as possible. When and if they see what they want, they will be coming to you. Usually college recruiters already know whether they want someone long before the camps. Very few just show up, surprise the recruiters, and get offered. Unless you have improved tremendously from the last time you attended the camp, what will be different? The secret to being recruited by your dream school is to have many other similar schools that want...
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
It all depends on your budget, but consider the Headfirst camps which tend to attract more top academic schools and many of those schools haven't really started recruiting yet.
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Because everything you said isn't only true, but right on the money. You hit that option up at the top!
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Rising Junior is way too early to give up dreams. Depending on how big of a school it is (Power Five?) how many of those 9 recruited 2019's will even attend college? (Opting instead for the MLB Draft)
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
This is brilliant. Most kids -- and parents -- would think that the schools they are interested in are the only ones they want to talk with or get in front of. But PGStaff makes a great point -- " If a bunch that saw you want you, another bunch who weren't there will also want you ."
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
In the high school football recruiting world, SOME kids use this strategy via social media. One Power 5 offer can turn into many just by creating a little social media buzz. I understand that football and baseball recruiting are different but the ultimate goal is the same.
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Rising junior, class of 2019, currently touring NE and showcasing. Dedicated to playing/ high academic gpa. Got an email back from Ivy Coach about their camp, saying only 30 slots left...and other private school coaches plan to attend. Does this indicate "some" interest? Or do they cast a wide net? Thanks in advance for the feedback!
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Ivy coaches are no different in enticing kids to their camps. The camps are money makers. Doesn't mean that the camps are rip offs - just that there is no difference in the Ivy approach when compared to other schools. There are camps which have larger exposures to tippy top academic schools - Headfirst, Stanford, and others. That having been said, if you have the budget and the camp doesn't conflict with other baseball stuff, why not take the opportunity to check it out? Keep in mind that...
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
Actually there are offers made, but just like everywhere else they are all based on being able to get into school. Not sure how many look at this, but it is kind of a neat little database about recruiting. You can search for any college and see their commitments for any year. You can also click on (Colleges interested in) to see how many PG players are showing interest to that college along with other colleges they are interested in. I used Harvard below... You can see that they have two...
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
I personally know 3 or 4 kids offered in the fall of their junior year.
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Re: Dream School or Practicality for a Rising Junior?
While I usually agree with PG, any player who believes that they have any kind of a binding Ivy commitment before they end the junior year is wishing and hoping. While coaches have a feel for their school's admission policies, no coach can predict a decline in grades or not achieving a particular score. (And, since there is no margin for error in any decline, the kid will be left at the alter in a minute.) Some kid posting a comittment to an Ivy before they finish their junior year is doing...
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Re: 10yo pitching question...
Here is one article I came up with. http://kdka.com/health/basebal...juries.2.759074.html FWIW, my son's BF mom told me when down in Alabama many years ago, Dr. Andrews was already treating 9 and 10 year old pitchers for injury. I do beleive there in those injuries has resulted in current recommendations. I do beleive there have been 9 and 10 years olds requiring surgery down in Alabama. Also while up in STL last summer, the doctor told me the best thing I ever did for son was limit his...
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Re: 10yo pitching question...
I will agree with you on that last paragraph. You mentioned that injury happens to players who both pitch and catch at the same time (same game). Overuse from "throwing hard" in too close of a timeframe without recovery from fatigue and normal muscle stress is what leads to chronic pain. Two years ago I took my kid off of a travel team because son was being used to much at the pitching position. The wierd part of it at the time was that I took him off mainly because other parts of his body...
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Re: Baseball shape - two sport athlete.
My 2013 went to the Duke fall camp. First he was being looked at with the previous coaching staff. After making contact with Coach Pollard he asked for video and transcript. His travel team coach who is from North Carolina called Pollard to see if he was looking for pitchers. He told him yes but he needed to see him. Coach Hayes called to make sure he was coming. So he went to the camp and pitched great. 90mph fastball great slider and changeup. Pollard was more involved with running the...
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Re: the new stealth
http://www.baseballexp.com/Baseball-Bats-/Adult-Basebal...Id/1100003/index.pro is this waht you talking about
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Re: Radford University in Virginia
The athletic program has not been interested in winning baseball games for some time now. Basebal has been put into a backseat to too many other sports to be competitive. Of which by the way none have had any meaningful success. They do not effectively recruit in Virginia and no Division I Head Coach in the country has survived a W-L record like Kent. ???
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Re: Weighted Balls
Weighted balls aren't meant for full strength throwing. They are amazing, but almost bad. You just throw very softly with a person, not so far away, and then you pick up a basebal, its like a wiffle ball. I almost feel like I can't throw it because it's too light.
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Re: PG Showcase Questions
The Predraft has always been held during the week usually on a Tuesday or Wednesday. The main reason is because it is college tournament time and by Tuesday there is not much basebal;l being played. This allows the Scouting Directors, crosscheckers and other scouts the best time to attend. It is a "heavily" scouted event, that has had a lot of early draft picks attend. It is for top players from high school and college. One year we had brothers attend... Brian McCann was in HS, older brother...
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Re: The State of Baseball in New Hampshire
If I am there I will be sure to do so. I understand that UNH has all but given up the possibility of re-instituting an intercollegiate basebal team. That being said, my main problem is that the University shows so little support and willingness to work with the baseball club. While we are certainly a competitive team on the field, due to the nature of our equipment, facilities, and means of transportation, we arrive at games looking like, as our coach would say, "a box of crayons."
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Re: NCAA Ruling with Balks
OBR is Official Basebal Rules. This would be the same ruling in OBR. WHat happens is it is a delayed dead ball and if all runners advance one base and the BR makes first sfaely then the balk is nullified. If any of these conditions aren't met then you kill the ball, return the batter and enforce the balk. You can have outs on this play as long as it after the one base requirement. In HS it is imediate dead ball, enforce the balk. The OBR ruling would be true in any OBR based system such as...
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Re: could this be???
RE: could this be??? , it seems very confusing! and interesting...the player may write the commissioner for an appeal...but...??? infielddad referred to this "bag of worms" story...http://hsbaseballweb.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/7106002781/m/2231056761?r=4401069761#4401069761 Timeline of a Top Prospect: Chapter 1 http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/highsch...seball.176312b9.html Chapter 2 (for 6 more years):...
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Re: 10U Legends Elite Tryouts- January 23
You may want to post this on esbaseballweb.com (Elementary School Baseball Web) too -
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Re: Too late for elite academic recruiting for 2016 grad?
In summary, the answers to your Ivy questions are that he would have to walk-on after being admitted. The time for your son to receive athletic sponsorship and support from the Coach is past unless there are extenuating circumstances. He would have to apply (late), be admitted (late) and walk-on which is not going to be easy since the Regular Decision deadline was early Jan 2016. If he has been accepted and the D3 coach wants him & supported him through high academic admissions why are...
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Re: Too late for elite academic recruiting for 2016 grad?
A few years ago a friend's son blossomed his senior year. His high school team was loaded. He didn't get on the mound until senior year. He absolutely dominated. All the local D1s expressed interest. One was an Ivy. The dad had attended the Ivy for undergrad and law school. He couldn't manage any pull. The kid was told he had to get accepted outside baseball. He didn't. He ended up pitching in the A10. By senior year roster spots are typically filled. At an academically elite school the...
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Re: Too late for elite academic recruiting for 2016 grad?
DaddyO just so you know, Fenway is the guy here. Even though I know much less than he's forgotten I'll wade into say 2 things. One, I think your son missed the boat. If he wants to play baseball at a top academic D1 I think his best option is to take a gap year and work in getting recruited for next year at Ivies, Patriot league schools, etc. With his academics, worst case scenario is that he has to go through the trouble of re-applying to the UC's and others again. Two, sometimes you get...
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Re: Too late for elite academic recruiting for 2016 grad?
His thoughts were that he didn't cast as big of a net as he should have, but the reality is that he was a borderline prospect 9 months ago who did not attend the camps that would have gotten him a look, and if he had he still would have not been the prospect he is now. He's applied to a few D3 schools with support, and has been honest with the coaches in that he is considering multiple schools. I'd figured the ship had sailed for the Ivy League, but was probably more interested in late...