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I am really excited for the season to start...
Roll call...
I have a 2019 catcher on high school varsity. Won State last year, now "rebuilding." A lot of new starters this year. First game against another school on 2/23. What about the rest of you?
MomLW posted:I am really excited for the season to start...
Roll call...
I have a 2019 catcher on high school varsity. Won State last year, now "rebuilding." A lot of new starters this year. First game against another school on 2/23. What about the rest of you?
I have a 2020 C, RHP, OF on JV, first game is tomorrow 
Youngest son is a 2017 and one of only 2 returning starters, so it looks like a rebuilding year, but you never know. With promising younger guys and older guys who'll finally get their chance, maybe they can surprise everyone and win league for 3rd time over my son's 4 years on the team. It'll be fun no matter what -- unless the season gets wiped out by the continuing deluge hitting the left coast.
Oldest (2017) and second oldest (2019) are on Varsity together, which if only for convenience sake is great, since 7th grader is playing for the school's intermediate team now, too. Lots of seniors on vars but not much depth and our pitching is suspect, so we'll see. 1-1 so far in preseason tournament games, and have another tournament this weekend.
2018 catcher/infield. Several Srs. in front of him, but he "ain't sitting." Old coach quit. Didn't find new coach until Dec. Conference shake up -- smaller schools gone. Now play 3 game series in one of the toughest baseball conferences. New pitching rules -- not enough pitchers. Might be a struggle. Should be interesting.
Uncommitted 2018 about to begin 2nd year as starting varsity SS - Can't wait for it to get started (next week). Lost quite a bit of talent from last year to graduation. This year will have 13 Sr's, 6 Jr's and 1 sophomore. Hoping a few of the kids new to varsity can contribute 'a lot' or it may be a long season (lol).
2018 P/OF. We return 8 starters from a team that went far in state tournament. Will be one of the favorites to win it all this year with only two senior starters. We also just replaced our 36 yr veteran coach with a 24yo after he retired. Entirely different coaching styles. Should be a fun season.
2020 P/IF on JV. Played 3rd scrimmage last night. (Played at Deer Park HS, Andy Pettitte's old school. Thanks Andy for the wonderful field). No kid has pitched more than one inning, lots of rotation in the field. To be 15 again, hanging with your teammates, bus rides across town, getting to play baseball. Definitely having fun.
Will catch some varsity games if we can. District has the number one and five preseason teams in Texas in largest class. Should be some good baseball.
Season starts March 13th. Coach is in his 3 year with only two wins so far. So no expectations to say the least. Hopefully son can miss enough bats this year to get a few wins. He's a 2019 and a returning starter so he's a lot more relaxed not being the new kid. I'm just hoping his arm feels good heading into summer ball lol. At least we have a couple stud players in our district that will be fun to watch.
In for next year. Son is 2021 C/1B/RHP.
Looking forward to following along and reading about everyone's season.
After taking off last spring and missing the program's implosion, my 2017 is back with the team and trying to help get it heading back in the right direction.
It's not a young team, but most of the players have limited experience at the varsity level. My son was elected team captain, and he is trying to set an example of how things should be done as opposed to how they had been done for the last couple of years.
Most of all he is looking to have fun this season, regardless of the record.
My 2017 had their first scrimmage last night with our second scrimmage coming up on Friday against the team we beat to win CIF-CCS last year. We lost our stud to UCLA but we are returning 12 seniors/Juniors that were either starters or saw significant playing time last year. Of those -- 6 are D1 commits, 2 have D1 walk-on spots, and 3 are set to play for quality D3 programs. The boys are hoping for a 3-peat for the CCS championship.
Regardless -- just going to enjoy watching my son play out his last year in high school. Watching game be streamed over the Internet next year won't be nearly as much fun.
We're building, not rebuilding. Our program started in 2013. This year we have better talent than last year, but they're all pretty raw. We have 3 guys who can play when last year we had none, so there's no where to go but up.
2019 LHP/1b on varsity with 2 strong senior leaders but most of those expected to contribute will come from his sophomore class. These kids have won state titles in little league and county titles in middle school, so looking to make the state tournament this year in a year where it seems most schools had a big senior class last year and are rebuilding
2020 LHP/1B with tryouts this Saturday unless the weatherman's prediction of heavy rain comes true! Cannot wait for his first HS season no matter which team he ends up on. First game scheduled on 2-28 so they don't have much time to select the team and get practicing.
2020Mom posted:2020 LHP/1B with tryouts this Saturday unless the weatherman's prediction of heavy rain comes true! Cannot wait for his first HS season no matter which team he ends up on. First game scheduled on 2-28 so they don't have much time to select the team and get practicing.
Tell him to take a raincoat!
From here, BTW; great blog if you like reading and/or knowing about weather. http://weatherwest.com/
2018 starts HS practice/tryouts on 3 March...was out all last spring with a broken hand (broke it on the first varsity scrimmage), so is hoping to stay healthy this year.
Tryouts for Ohio start Monday! Hoping for unseasonable weather (which is predicted!) so the 5:30 AM (!!) indoor tryouts have a possibility of being held outdoors after school. As long as basketball is still playing, baseball get the unfortunate 5:30-7:00 morning gym slot all next week!
This is my son's senior year. He set the single season homerun record for his school last year (10). Hopefully he can top that this year and the team wins some games. We don't start practices in NJ until March 3rd.
DHC17 where are you in Ohio? I am north of Cincy. Not sure who is more excited me or my son for Monday.
Tryouts next week, but 2017 still playing in playoffs of his winter sport. Returning numerous (more than needed for a line up) seniors, but none but ours will be going on to play collegiately, most should not even start but our coach is sentimental for the seniors. We should have 3-4 sophomores, 1 freshman and 1 junior starting in the field, but it will probably be 7/8 seniors. The underclassmen may not even make varsity despite being better. Come on coach, I want to win my son's last year!
Metsman79 posted:This is my son's senior year. He set the single season homerun record for his school last year (10). Hopefully he can top that this year and the team wins some games. We don't start practices in NJ until March 3rd.
Wow, JV is over on 3/31 in GA. Tryouts were the week of 1/16
Metsman79 posted:This is my son's senior year. He set the single season homerun record for his school last year (10). Hopefully he can top that this year and the team wins some games. We don't start practices in NJ until March 3rd.
Wow.....10 Bombs is solid!
Imagine he's committed or sitting on a few offers?
He's playing for a nationally ranked JUCO next year. He didn't take his grades seriously so he didn't qualify for D1 or D2.
CaCO3Girl posted:Metsman79 posted:This is my son's senior year. He set the single season homerun record for his school last year (10). Hopefully he can top that this year and the team wins some games. We don't start practices in NJ until March 3rd.
Wow, JV is over on 3/31 in GA. Tryouts were the week of 1/16
Tryouts don't start here in NY until 3/13 - they won't have their first game until your JV season is over. This will be my first year without a son on our HS team in 5 years as 2016 has gone off to school and my 2020 will be playing Lacrosse. He was on the fence about trying out for JV baseball and then the hoops coach (who also coaches Lax) convinced him they really needed some big kids on defense on lax. At 6'2" and 200lbs as of yesterday's physical he'll be the largest kid on lax by far.
2018 RHP in Nebraska. It is 70 degrees today and I am dying to be at the field. But alas, tryouts don't start until 2/27 and first game 3/16. At which point it will be back to 45. Son is top returning pitcher on varsity. It's kind of nice this year that there is no nervousness about which team he will be on. Coach is grooming him to lead this year and next. Hopefully he is up to the challenge. Very excited to see this season play out. His team will be very young but much improved. The talent level is much higher than it has been for probably 5 years. And even though they are young there are 7 returning starters from last year's varsity team. Only 1 of which is a senior this year. Jealous of all of you who get to watch your sons already. But it won't be long and we'll be off and running till August.
California. We don't do rain well. This is shaping up to be the wettest winter on record. EVER. More in the forecast every day between now and next Wednesday. I'm sitting at my office desk, looking out the window, watching the sideways wind and rain lift the entire corner of the roof of the large industrial building next door. Our lone scrimmage is scheduled for Friday and we start league the following Tuesday. I think we've been on our field a total of two full days and may not get on it again before first game.
This only happens here every... , well, never, so we don't have "alternative" covered facilities. One gym and that is reserved this time of year for boys VB and local rec basketball. We're gonna walk thru 1st/3rd offense and defense today in a classroom or in my living room . Could be an ugly start. That's OK. I just hope we GET to start.
Just so bizarre... 3 months ago, we feared that if we didn't get significant rain, the six year drought would reach epic proportions. Today, we fear that if we get any more significant rain, the flooding and mud slides can reach epic proportions.
Good luck, everyone.
2017 and 2019 had their second game together tonight, and second win. Seniors starting 5-7 positions depending on Coach's decisions. 2017 starting in left so far this year was 1-2 with a stolen base and run scored. 2019 Dh'd tonight and made good contact, so we'll see if that lasts. Games tomorrow and Monday (Preseason tournament), then opening league play next Friday night on TV against arch rivals. Things are heating up.
Here in Seattle suburb, tryout will start 2/27. Weather doesn't look too promising, but that's expected.
Our high school's tryout is interesting. After 3 day tryout, Freshmen team will be set, but JV and V will have a combined roster of 30-35. JV and V will take practice together the rest of the week. On Saturday 3/4, they'll split the team into two and do a scrimmage. After that, the JV and V roster will be decided.
Any other schools doing this kind of elaborate tryouts?
Awesome start to our final hs baseball season here in the Carolinas yesterday. Perfect baseball weather, sunny 70s. Very pleased with the team and my own son's performance. Feel very lucky man to be able to watch my son play this great game. Best of luck, ya'll.
Yesterday I drove an hour and a half to the team's first scrimmage, which started 2 hours late and lasted 11 innings. It was cloudy, wet, and cold, and I was too stupid to bring enough layers, so I was numb for hours after getting home. The team played just OK and my 2017 looked rusty.
And still, I woke up this morning thinking yeah, that was great, let's get out there again!
Jealous of all of you. Our first game is Memorial Day weekend. Have fun!!
THat's just not even fair, Iowamom.
smokeminside posted:THat's just not even fair, Iowamom.
Tell me about it!
We could send videos!
Good news is its 72 today--outside throwing for the first time so we know it's coming. But videos and other reminders of upcoming fun are welcome!
Weather has been shorts/ t shirt weather here too. Gotta love the southeast (until the summer anyway)
We are 4 scrimmages deep into the season. One more today, then the regular season starts first week of March. Down to the coast for a tournament the second week of March. Hopefully the nice weather holds out. My 2018 is the incumbent starting first baseman. His team has won their district the past two seasons, but we bumped up to a higher classification this year, and while we are still very talented, we are very young on the infield (JR ,Soph, Soph, Fresh). Our pitching is going to require strong infield defense, so if they can hold up, we might be pretty good. We are strong offensively top to bottom, so I could see us winning a bunch of 10-8 games. I guess we'll see though....
We started tryouts yesterday. My son didnt sleep all Sunday. His friends were over and they were jacked also. They cant wait to get on the field again. Weather here has been very nice. Should be nice all week for first live scimmage game Saturday!!
Cant wait to watch my boy play again.....Trying to slow things down and really enjoy the last two years