D3 medical redshirt is much easier than D1. Worth a try.
I'll talk to him about it, might as well, right? Basically he'll have the original documentation of the injury and the time/date it occurred. Wish he had gone back to record the issues he was having in his hand, but I get why he didn't, he just thought it would heal but it lingered. Plus a bit of gaslighting from coaches telling him to get ready for a start to see how long he could go, but it never came. (I'll keep from commenting on that). He got feeling back but the season is over, his velo is back up but not to pre-injury level.
It would just be nice to get that season back since they had some pretty big plans for him going into the season, at least that's what they told him, until that point he had been progressing at about 4mph per year.
It would be a shame to have the potential at current progress, to throw low to mid 90's with hard breaking stuff by senior year and maybe just 1 season to show it. Only talking sitting velo from trackman bullpens, he came in freshman sitting 82, Fall sophomore year sitting 86 (parent told me he was hitting 88 consistently in game that fall off stalker, I'm a bit skeptical but possible) . Dropped back to 82 after injury with no control (that was the bigger issue), back to 84 now with better feel for strike zone. After realizing they weren't going to pitch him going into last 2 weeks he started upping the workouts to more than just maintenance. (he's been told by professional pitcher he has the arm speed of a 90mph pitcher, the body needs to catch up, he's only 19 not a Super 2 or the like).
So much potential. If he can't get the extra year, I know he'll make the most out of the 2 left. Same summer workout program as last year which was awesome but they'll place him late summer to get some innings. Fingers crossed.
(please forgive the extra info, this is my only outlet for baseball talk as the wife doesn't like to hear it, all the time, I'm kind of a one track broken record) ;-)
