High School Baseball 2014

Our first Scrimmage today as well, South DFW area for me! Can't wait, I was out at the fields all day Saturday watching practice. I have two sons playing this year a Senior and a Freshman.

Our first scrimmage is this evening as well in East Texas but fields maybe too wet to play. 

I took the liberty to rename this one to high school baseball 2014.  We'll feature it at the top of the forum with the college thread.  Please update this thread as often as you like as the season progresses.  Thanks.

Houston area and just getting started in the journey.  My 6th grade son tries out for the 7th grade team today.  First of 16 games is next week. Small private school.  His club team just had tryouts a couple weeks ago and this week is first full (3-practice) week.  First tournament is in DFW in a month.  Last basketball regular season game is tonight, then playoffs.  Feb is a busy month.  He pitches and I'm worried about managing innings/bullpens, etc.

We r sitting here under 5 inches of snow.

First game second wk in Mar. 

On the road to scrimmage in Mansfield,TX tonight. My son's senior year.

In August, he's headed off to Missouri to pitch in college. 

Reflecting on 15 springs of the great game and how my son got here.

Going to savor every moment this spring and summer before the nest is

empty, then get used to a 5.5 hour drive to watch him throw in college.

 

Which Mansfield school? My two play for Mansfield Summit.

My oldest is off to Oklahoma Wesleyan as a catcher. Looking forward to this senior season!

ABC_Dad,

facing Mansfield Tigers.

I guess you are like me... a soon to be empty nester.

Have a great spring!

Our V team is playing a tune up game tonight, and another tomorrow.  We have an alumni game (new event this year) on Saturday, then the real games start on Monday for V and Wednesday for JV.

 

My 2017 is finally getting over tendonitis, and is chomping at the bit to get on the mound. He hasn't been allowed to throw at practices yet, so he has spent a good portion of practice time fixing up the bullpen mounds and re-tying nets.

catcher's and pitcher's report tomorrow at 6:15am for practice.  It will be a balmy -5F when I drop my son off at school. Tryouts are March 18th.  It begins again !

Cool @ 25 8-10 inches on the ground 6-8 more coming tomorrow.Try outs 3 weeks away.First game March 21st

Played our first V scrimmage game Saturday and temps were in the low 70's in Fl. 2016 got his first V start! He was a very happy kid!

Huge year for the guys in our facility. Can't wait to kick the season off in the rainy PacNW here in a month!

Wow, you guys have it made.  Here in Ohio we've got 6-7" of snow on the ground....and another 8-10" coming tonight.  "Official" practice doesn't start until Feb.24th with first game April 1.  Last year practice started on Feb 25th....first game was on Monday April 1st. The first day we were able to get on the field was Saturday March 30th....2 days before the first game....and it's not looking much better this year.  I keep asking my son if he'd like to "look south" for college....but so far he's planning on staying here in the good old Midwest...though I have no idea why....lol

We have you beat this time of year, but on the flip side it does rain almost every day from May through October.

Sunshine State --- pffft.

Tryouts early last week for Freshman and some others. Had 1st scrimmage (inter-squad) on Friday. 2015 threw 3 innings. Allowed leadoff hit and then error by SS, retired next 9 in row. But the biggest thing was no BB's. Pitchers were only allowed to throw FB's and CU's.

Appears planned scrimmages this week will all be rained out. 

Varsity cuts were yesterday, been going full bore with "unofficial" practices since early January. got an invitation tourney this week (3 teams coming to Kauai, so a 6 team tournament) should be fun. should be a great 4 months, just need this damn rain to stop

First scrimmage tomorrow with temp. suppose to be 31 deg.

We had our pre-season game this afternoon In Orlando. It was great to watch son play again after missing last season. What an opener... We played against a very good team with the number1 player in the country, Nick Gordon. There were about 20 scouts there for a pre-season game. Unfortunately for Nick, our pitching is not very deep so didn't get to show his offense. Son went 1-3 and they play again tomorrow. Season starts next week. By the way, it was86 degrees. my pitcher in Cleveland can't wait to play down here in another month. He may actually see a baseball field. 

Was this the Waimea tournament?  How was it? We saw one of the teams at the airport when we were coming home from the Maui tournament but were too tired to stop and chat.

10° and 3 1/2 ft of snow on the ground. Tryouts 1st week in March, games start 2 1/2 weeks later. We missed the first 7 games last year in Michugan due to the weather. Hopefully it warms up soon.

Played our first game last night... lost in bottom of 7th, 3-2...

 

We faced this dude: https://www.perfectgame.org/Pl...ofile.aspx?ID=340677

 

Son went 1-2 off him with single to LF & RBI... He was throwing GAS!!

Yes it was tho waimea tournament. Unfortunately the weather was not cooperative for the 3days. Still a good time though

It's opening night for the JV team. 6:30 game under the lights.  Our only night game though -The rest of the season is nothing but Saturday doubleheaders.

 

My son is coming off of a bout of tendonitis, so he's not really back to 100%.  The word he was given is that he will either come out of the bullpen tonight, or start one of the games on Saturday.

 

Our varsity team opened up with a 24-0 victory on Monday night. They were going station to station by the 2nd inning, but they put up 25 hits so there wasn't much that could be done about it. Opposing team only made 1 error too.  Their pitchers really just couldn't keep the ball away from the bat.

Jealous.. Another 5 weeks until tryouts here in MN. 

AS 19coach said- jealous. 8 inches of now and and temperture today is 2 

At least our temperatures are approaching normal here in MN.  If this keeps up we might just get a full season in this spring.  Last years no outdoor practices and 14 games in 17 days was a bit much.

Indeed, Just need the snow to melt. My group can't take another 6 weeks in the gyms with no outdoor practices. What part of MN are you in Chef?

 

in ohio. Been record colds or at least for a long time. Hasn't been above 20 in weeks. Been below 0 often.  In southwest ohio. Not usually this cold.  On the good side my son is throwing a couple bullpens a week in between basketball. Asst coach says he is throwing really well.  More than I ever get out of him

 

Middle School, but.....1st game tonight.  Son gets the start. He's a 6th grader.  First time he rides the bus from the school to the away fields with his teammates and coach.  I think I am starting to get what you guys mean when you say "school ball is special".  The sun is shining brightly in Houston today! 

school ball is definitely special. 

 

Unlike travel ball at an older age (16U and up) which is about individual acchievements, school ball is about the team. In travel ball, the only people that care how a team is playing or even watch is parents players and coaches.

 

In school ball, you get to play with who you grow up with. In school ball it is more community. It is not unusual to have many my sons friends at HS game, It is not unusual to have dads with thier young sons there, watching and learning. At least in my community, the HS players are looked up at with stars in their eyes by young kids. Pictures with them happens most every game (this is post game). It is about community pride, HS pride, pride for team above self. It is MUCH more pure of a game than travel ball in my opinion. It is about the game- us versus them. 

 

I remember the year the boys went to state.The last 2-3 games(Must Wins) before they earned their spot there were people from town that I had never seen at a game before.The game that put them in the state finals you would have thought we were in town or something

Very exciting! Good luck to him this season. Enjoy the ride the next 7 years.

Thursday was last scrimmage. 2015 started and threw 4 innings. No runs,no hits, one walk, Opposing pitcher who's committed to TCU hit him on inside throwing elbow in 2nd inning. Still pitched two more innings. Swelling has subsided but still a little sore. Hope it is fine by Monday. He's supposed to pitch @ Minute Maid Park on Monday evening. 1st game of year. Team and parents are looking forward to it.

This week my son found out that he will be starting the season at third base.  My son has been a starter on varsity as a catcher since he was in the eighth grade and is now a senior.  My son had an accident in October that could have ended his baseball playing days, so it was an excellent surprise to find out that our son will need a new infielders glove!

 

In years past, I took high school baseball for granted.  While I enjoyed watching my son and his teamates play, I was always really waiting for summer ball to come and the serious competition to begin.  This year I am going to appreciate every minute of my son's last season of high school baseball.  I am thankful that my son will get to wear the team uniform and represent his high school one last season.

I hear you 2014Prospect.

I thought my son was not going to throw today at Flower Mound TX Jaguars. It's their last scrimmage before tournaments begin this Thursday and Mj8 Jr is scheduled to start first Thursday game on the bump. Today I've cleared the work schedule to attend this Thursday but I just found out he'll throw one inning today! Yeah, it's just one inning to get the pre-tournament work in AND I've got conflicts today, but I'm going to figure out a way. I'll be there  It's his senior year, I'm not missing anything

My son got to pitch in his first varsity experience the last 3 scrimmages for one inning each game.  He is bit erratic but it was nice to see that his velocity was the same as most other pitchers (~75 mph).  

I just built a portable pitchers mound for the backyard so I can work with him on increasing speed using video and my new radar gun.  His personal pitching instructor will be Nolan Ryan. 

He also got to catch a few innings each scrimmage and threw out his first runner. 

He will need to work on a quicker rotation and pitch selection when batting.  

2015 Son just got his 1st start of the season and it was a good one. he was suppose to start a week ago for our 1st regular season game, away, but it got canceled because of a broken pipe and the field was flooded. They reschedule for a week later and he gets the start so his coach could keep the same rotation. He throws 7 innings of no hit baseball for the win. What a game. Proud parents.

Well my 2017 lefty, he is on freshmen team. got the call last night to start the first scrimmage of the year for the JV team. he went two innings gave up one hit up the middle, no runs, no walks, with 2 K's. coach told me after the scrimmage, the reason they pulled him they had seen enough and wanted to see a few other pitchers. he threw 24 pitches barely enough to get started. can't wait for the season to kickoff March 1st