@RJM posted:Are you confusing “potential to be a D1 prospect” with “he’s a D1 prospect?” I’ve never heard of anyone throwing 80 being a D1 prospect.
There are also various levels of D1 prospect. A major conference/other top competitive programs are looking for a pitcher who will touch 90. A bottom 100 (there are 300 D1’s) D1 may be looking for 85 who can throw strikes.
Hitting 80 heading into freshman year is promising. But he has to improve his velocity consistently over the next two years. He also has room to fill out. How much more is he expected to grow?
The way to know a player is a D1 prospect is travel teams with reputations for placing most or all of their players in D1 ball are recruiting him. Other teams will ask him to guest when available.
Good question. I don't fully know.
One of his coaches suggested he start to target the Ivy League. Another suggested Stanford, which, yes, is close by.
His projection is 6'2" maybe 6'3".
Thanks re: travel ball recruiting. I'll keep that in mind. Great advice. Right now, there are 3 clubs asking about his availability for summer. 2 of them are national-level.