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Watching JV ball freshman year was hell. Once he was playing varsity soph year it was fun. It was cool when he was competing against his travel teammates. One game my son stoled second a second time. He signaled 2 for 2 at his travel teammate catcher. The catcher signaled back 2-0. It was the score. His team was ahead.
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Son's team was able to get through initial tryouts Fri and Sat (determined the first cut). They were able to get on the field to hit Monday night but, have not touched the field since and probably won't till next week from rain and flooded field. Team selection normally continues until before the first game when uniforms are handed out. This was hard for son not knowing if he made varsity until he got his uniforms. Most of the players know by who they are practicing with, one of the 2 JVs or...
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Due to coaching changes at my son's school we know very little of what the jv season will bring. He is a freshman and there are alot of good sophomores so he probably won't play much. My son knew the former jv coach well and has played for him before. I had a fair amount of confidence he would make the team before but now anything could happen as there is new leadership. We don't know much about the new guy. Our season doesn't start for a while so there is time. Son is working hard, goes to...
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Best wishes to all the players through tryouts and into the season. I hope all players are at least given a fair opportunity to tryout. Grades, character, tools, work ethic, leadership...these are things that a coach should consider. It saddens me when I hear about decisions being made before the season starts. I just saw a HS post their team GPA for the fall semester...they haven't even had tryouts (I know because the state HS athletic associate sets the earliest date that tryouts can be held).
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This was exactly how I felt freshman year (last year) watching JV. The goal did not necessarily seem to be to win (philosophy definitely seems to differ from Varsity). We had not felt so frustrated watching baseball since house league (which son had not played since he was 9-years-old when he started playing full time travel). So so baseball in poor weather (punctuated by a game with a snow delay) is not much fun. Hoping this year is better.
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My son’s JV team was good. They wouldn’t have come in last in the varsity league. Neither would the one team they lost to twice. My son started on varsity soph year. A couple more sons came up mid season. Other JV guys came up junior year and helped win back to back conference titles. It was the competition that stunk. There was only one other good team they played twice. The JV team was 16-2. Given the best freshmen played JV I can’t imagine what watching a freshman team game would have...
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Just received the full spring schedule. 33 total games to include scrimmages and tournaments (Tournament games were also included 2 four game and 1 five game). Then on to playoffs. Those that have your schedules what does the game count look like?
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19 Games 2 scrimmages. Starting 4/8 ending 5/24. Then Playoffs which I believe is 3 games to the championship.
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We can now play 26 regular season games, which is up form 20 in years past. We start the season March 15th traveling to Dallas for 2 games.
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Scrimmages are going good. 2 down so far. Team is looking great. Players are being moved around a lot. Son played some OF for the first time since he was 10. How is everyone else scrimmages going?
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Practicing outside today. Going to be 49 and sunny! Supposed to be going live. "try outs" are in a month. First scrimmage shortly after.
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Inept just like most of the HS coaching and most of HS baseball except for the top tier HS programs. Edit: they are batting the entire lineup including POs in scrimmages makes no sense Our team makes the playoffs every year and usually makes it to the second round but it always ends there, but it’s really the lack of development and bloated rosters that contribute to that. I’m wondering after watching a few early scrimmages if my son should consider sitting out to train outside of the...
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Season begins on March 21st with 24 games on the schedule plus 2 pre-season scrimmages. Being a very small school, the team lacks depth, particularly on the mound (2 legitimate starters), so it will be "all hands on deck" for several games. No trip to Florida this year, which is fine by us parents as our daughter's club volleyball season will be in full-swing. The playoff schedule format definitely helps our pitching staff, so there is a good opportunity to make a run if everyone stays...
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2027 son just hit a 94.5 Exit velocity off a pitching machine ball. He has a few over 90 now with that being his highest. Just got him a baseball focused strength trainer as well.
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2025 son's team has first 2 preseason games next week. Just finished his first varsity basketball season last night. Went from JV bench warmer to starting every game this year on varsity. So that was a pleasant surprise. It will be interesting to see if / how spending so much time on basketball will impact his baseball. They made him a PO for now and was told he will be starting one of the games next week. Will be hard to go from loud and excited basketball crowds full of students to...
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Just out of curiosity, how much weight did he lose during the basketball season?
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@Master P Innocent question that cuts deep.😁 He's rail thin to begin with. Been telling him for years that lack of strength is going to be his downfall. No commitment to weight training or diet. He is 6'3 and floats between 165 to 170 lbs. Very athletic. Sub 7 runner, can do trick dunks, but lacks strength. So while I don't think he lost much weight, he definitely did not gain ANYTHING as basketball has been pretty much Non-Stop since Thanksgiving. Claims he was sitting 85 in his last...
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This is a problem for baseball players. My son started his growth burst towards the end of summer heading into high school. By spring he was 5’11 135. Strength was an issue because basketball took away from the time he could have spent strength training. He also couldn’t gain weight despite eating like a horse. He was talented enough to start on varsity freshman year on a bad team. But, upper body strength wise he was a little boy compared to varsity players. We were shocked he was cut from...
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Still going good. 4 scrimmages down against 5A teams (we are 4A). "Won" all 4 pretty easily. We have used 8 different pitchers with no more then 2 innings in a game. One more scrimmage this Friday, then first tournament next week (BorderOlympics). Should be a good trip down south. Scheduled to play some good teams (5A, 6A, and 1 independent (private school)).
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HS season for my kid started like last season… bench warmer and no opportunity on the mound. Luckily he’s turned it around quickly and is back to batting cleanup and starting to earn more innings on the mound. I’d like to say it’s isolated, but on our particular team, 3 IF positions and 1 OF position have swapped to the ‘better’ player. Coaches anointed kids from tryouts and preseason that were definitely not the best players. It’s a little baffling that our coaches get it that wrong year...
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Ha ha! Yeah. I get both sides. Going to be interesting here when we start next week. However, the coaches (here) are going off mostly indoor practice, hitting off machines. Some kids are great practice kids, others are gamers…. That being said I know several people are questioning the starting line up. Doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
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At least they realized it and made changes... This site is full of stories where it's felt that doesn't happen and coaches stick with seniors. Maybe it's a ploy too - hungry players getting roles can cause those losing spots to become hungry. They can also become disruptive.
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My son’s coach turned a perennial doormat into a conference champion. His third fourth and fifth seasons were my son’s soph to senior years. The team came in second and two firsts. The team went from no offseason plan and no fall ball to a M-F off season plan and fall ball. The reason for playing in tournaments may vary from state to state. When my son played, in our state teams were allowed to play twenty-two regular season games. But a tournament counted as one event/game. A four or five...
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My son played in one of the most competitive districts in the HS baseball hotbed of southern Texas. There were perennial powerhouse schools and schools that gave baseball very little effort. It's hard to know much about your son's program from the info provided, but I would just say HS baseball should be fun for the athlete and parent. IMO if your son projects to play beyond HS, the growth will likely come from activities outside the HS program (unless your son is in an elite HS program).
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If you want good feedback you need to provide more information. What part of the country do you live in? What size HS does your son attend?? It astounds me that people make generic posts, with no details, and expect helpful comments. That’s not how it works!
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My son is a freshman and I am new to this. I am wondering why and how the hs teams play in tournaments. To my knowledge neither our JV or varsity plays in anything but league play. Our program seems much less intense than others. Even winter workouts were basically about 6 weeks once or twice a week in the gym. Does it depend on the coach whether they are willing to put in the extra time? Or the school budget?
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We are a 6A in TX and have baseball class everyday. I think a lot of the powerhouse programs do. We actually have class for all sports. So off season is class and “optional” after school practice run by the kids with the coaches watching on golf carts and in spring it is class the last hour of the day that continues into practice after school.
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Season is still going good. Team is in the top 20 rankings in the state for their division. Big tournament starting today. They will be playing 2 other teams that are above them in the rankings and a good 6A team. We shall see how it goes.
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Our Mid Atlantic/northeast high school had after school indoor workouts alternating between baseball skills and physical training from November through February. There were also 5:45am workouts for baseball players playing a winter sport. The coach made an arrangement with a nearby baseball facility where the kids could go in and hit during certain hours in the winter for $10 per month. Players were expected to show up March 1 in mid season physical form. The team traveled to South Carolina...
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So we are in the Northeast small public high school about 800 students. Coaches have played college baseball. I think our JV season is about 20-22 games. No baseball class or any sports specific classes of any kind. They have a,short winter workout program obviously limited by the weather and space we have. There are plenty of kids who play travel and we do have some good players. But to gave you an idea of skill level I think we had 4 senior college commits last year mostly D3. Our league...
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Ditto. In general, there's a regionality (including WEATHER) and sociocultural differences at play. Kid wrapped up a big HS preseason tourney of 26 teams with top HS teams from all over: soCal, Hawaii, AZ, MS. PLUS there was another big PBR tourney with great teams going on simultaneously as well. YES, $$$ matters, as you can imagine how expensive team travel can be. At one point we had >110 kids in our program. You know what they say, everything is bigger in Texas... and yes, understand...
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Tomorrow's scrimmages vs. 2 other schools canceled due to rain. Bummer.
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I think we have 70-72 players about evenly spread Soph, JV, and Varsity. I think it’s solely so the coach doesn’t worry about complaining parents but maybe it’s fund raising. I’d say he is actually trying to let players develop but that would be contrary to reality. Our Soph team is essentially equal playing time. JV is same until district. Varsity is just a mess IMO. We live in a baseball hotbed btw with 95% of our kids (and most other schools too) playing year round travel ball before they...
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So far this season has sucked. Rain and wet fields all the time (usual for this time of the year), broken lawnmowers, my JV pitchers can't throw strike to save their lives, absolutely no discipline or commitment from a majority of our players, between JV and varsity we are off to an 0-5 start 3 of the 5 haven't really been close one of the other ones we made either 5 or 6 errors and lost to a really really bad team, the other game we led 10-9 vs the #4 team in the state (in a class lower...
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We just got back from our opening weekend going to Dallas to play a couple games. Beat a good 15-1 Grapevine team even though we didn't see their top arms. Then beat Denton Braswell today. The boy went 4 shutout innings against Grapevine, 0H, 8K's was 91-94 in the first inning. The 4 walks are concerning but not a bad first outing.
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That's impressive! That GV team is no joke. Too bad the powers that be didnt set up a match up against DH on the "hill" (all pun intended). That would've been must see TV and would've drawn scouts and coaches from ALL OVER. Great when these pre season tourneys pit great teams across state lines that normally wouldnt happen.
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He had pitched the day before for them in a much more important game. I was just glad we got the game in. Due to the rain it had to be moved and didn't start till 8pm.
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Great Outing! Not an expert, just a baseball dad and pitcher's father that's been at it a while. Throwing gas with 2K's per inning against a top HS team is high cotton. It's hard at that age to live near max effort and not give away some bags. I think the goal is to work on the misses being competitive, it's hard tho, even the pro's struggle with 0 - 2 sliders that are close enough to give the hitter's pause...
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Season still going good, 12 regular games left. Undefeated in district. Still in the top 20 in the state. Son has mostly been playing outfield, they desperately needed another outfielder and son was their fastest option. Doing a really good job for someone that has not been in the outfield since he was 10. Gives him more practice being a team player.
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Additionally, your kid is in the 99th percentile for highschool velo. So if and when a hitter barrels his pitches, it's going to come off real hot. Comes with the territory.
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I will ask some questions. Who was calling pitches? Can your son shake if he doesn’t like the pitch call?? What pitches were the extra base hits off???
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This game will humble you quickly. My 2025 had a similar nightmare in his first appearance this preseason. He had never given up a home run on "The Big Field" before. He then proceeded to give up a grand slam & a three-run homer in the same inning 😁. To my surprise he handled it well. He told me after the game " Well it can't get any worse than that, can it?" Has been solid ever since and has become The closer on a 9 -3 team. I'm sure your boy will bounce back! @Master P
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This is true. Hard throwers can give up bombs that go a long way. In a Karl Young college summer league game in Houston I gave up a HR to a LHH named Alvin Rueben (who later played DE in the NFL) at Del Mar Stadium. The ball was still going up as it cleared the RF fence, it easily carried the grass and the service road, and hit a car that was traveling on Hwy 290. Had to go close to 500 ft.
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Welp. The boy had a start against one of the top teams in the state. 3 IP, 9 H, 8 R, 8 ER, 2 BB, 4K. Gave up 2 bombs, 3 doubles and a triple. Baseball.
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First inning gave up a full count bomb on a 94 FB to a Tennessee commit the other way. Second inning left an 0-2 change up and a kid hit it 400' Then he just started catching barrels. His coach calls the pitches but they can shake it off. The other team was being aggressive and executing.
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That has happened to every pitcher that has ever stepped on a game mound. Learn what you can from the experience, flush it, and move on. Tomorrow is a new day.