2020 with injury

Jam - Has any doctor been able to figure out the source of the problem? That needs to be the first order of business if he going to continue pitching. 

The word may be out that he has an injury and RC’s now want to see if he will be and can remain healthy going forward. 

Best wishes on a full and speedy recovery to your young man. I hope that it all works out in the end.  

If they 've pulled their attention, do you really think they would have sent a NLI on signing day?  You would have had false security.  Verbals are not binding.  Worse case kid attends fall and gets cut.  Lost a year of eligibility.  

bandera posted:

If they 've pulled their attention, do you really think they would have sent a NLI on signing day?  You would have had false security.  Verbals are not binding.  Worse case kid attends fall and gets cut.  Lost a year of eligibility.  

I started to add something similar to my post. I really don’t think that you hedged and lost. It’s likely that, as Bandera stated, no school would have honored the offer IF he’s not healthy. 

The good news is that IF he can get healthy and return to form, the interest from schools should return. 

You still have time.  If doctors say he has a good chance of getting better, then do what they say.  If they made offers and he was good enough as a freshman to get attention it will be there if he gets back healthy.

JAM24 - I greatly sympathize with your son's situation.

If he was good enough to get P5 offers early, he'll get them later, too, if he can get healthy.  The key is getting back to 100%.

You definitely should take him to somebody who is an expert in shoulders and throwing injuries. 

hshuler posted:

Jam - Has any doctor been able to figure out the source of the problem? That needs to be the first order of business if he going to continue pitching. 

The word may be out that he has an injury and RC’s now want to see if he will be and can remain healthy going forward. 

Best wishes on a full and speedy recovery to your young man. I hope that it all works out in the end.  

That’s a good question about whether there is a specific mechanical or physiological cause. I don’t know but we have a good doctor and can ask that question. Thanks for your comments and good wishes.

Thanks for the replies. To Bandera and HShuler, you make a good point. It’s possible schools would have dropped him but I do See schools stick with an injured player sometimes (maybe see what happens the following year). Certainly if he doesn’t heal and improve it wouldn’t have worked out either way.

Jam24 posted:

hshuler posted:

Jam - Has any doctor been able to figure out the source of the problem? That needs to be the first order of business if he going to continue pitching. 

The word may be out that he has an injury and RC’s now want to see if he will be and can remain healthy going forward. 

Best wishes on a full and speedy recovery to your young man. I hope that it all works out in the end.  

That’s a good question about whether there is a specific mechanical or physiological cause. I don’t know but we have a good doctor and can ask that question. Thanks for your comments and good wishes.

Have you been to an orthopedist at all?  From your response above, it doesn't sound like it, which is a bit surprising given the potential your son has shown to have gained high interest early and that fact that he missed his entire HS season.  As others have stated already, seek some serious medical opinion, but you need to look beyond the family doctor (and apologies if you have, but your post above just mentions "a good doctor") and seek out an orthopedist that has some specialty in sports medicine, shoulders in particular.  Someone needs to be ordering an MRI and getting a diagnosis and corrective plan of action for you.

Nuke83 - thanks for your concern. we have been to an ortho. Had MRIs and know specifically what the injury is. But we haven’t asked if there is something he is doing - mechanically - that is causing it. Would need to sync up dr. /PT/ coach for that I guess. 

I'm starting to think that the early commit pressure high school kids and their parents feel applies more to position players than to pitchers. Colleges never stop looking to add the right pitcher it seems. So I worry less about slots being filled as a pitcher. 

My 2020 LHP is in a somewhat similar situation where he picked up some elbow tightness this summer. No structural damage, but no real urgency to push it as a 2020 in the fall of his junior year... so he's going to rest it. Just want to get it right for next spring and summer, and our belief is when that happens, the right schools will be looking then, too. If he couldn't deliver on his projectability as a sophomore, he wouldn't have kept any early offers for very long anyway.

TheRightScuff posted:

I'm starting to think that the early commit pressure high school kids and their parents feel applies more to position players than to pitchers. Colleges never stop looking to add the right pitcher it seems. So I worry less about slots being filled as a pitcher. 

My 2020 LHP is in a somewhat similar situation where he picked up some elbow tightness this summer. No structural damage, but no real urgency to push it as a 2020 in the fall of his junior year... so he's going to rest it. Just want to get it right for next spring and summer, and our belief is when that happens, the right schools will be looking then, too. If he couldn't deliver on his projectability as a sophomore, he wouldn't have kept any early offers for very long anyway.

 

Spot on, especially for LHP.  You're smart to take the fall off.  Let him rest and get into the gym to build strength.