Deleting Perfect Game scouting report and grade from showcase

makeittotheleague: Reach out to PGStaff here on this website. I'm sure he can point you in the right direction.

I don't mean to be blunt or come off as rude, but if you weren't fully up to your playing potential, why did you attend the showcase?

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Hopefully you are a lot stronger and feel better now. Best of luck.

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Originally posted by J H:
I don't mean to be blunt or come off as rude, but if you weren't fully up to your playing potential, why did you attend the showcase?

As you probably remember, you are touching on a subject close to me here. Definitely not necessary at all to be so blunt! Early T1 diabetics bodies are going through a lot of changes and often have difficulty in controlling their own blood sugar. Very difficult to deal with, but your world doesn't end because of it.

birdman- Of course, of course. My point was that the showcase was directly after the diagnosis and the onset of the diabetes caused the weight loss, which caused the underperformance. I have plenty of friends that are type 1 diabetics and function extremely well...most even better than I do. I wasn't implying that the diabetes specifically should deter anyone from a showcase, just the timing circumstances of this particular situation.

My sister is a T1 diabetic who has had both legs amputed from the disease.

I feel for the kid. But what in the H-E double hockey sticks were his parents thinking allowing him to attend after losing 30 -- 30!! -- pounds?

Get healthy first kid. Baseball can wait.

This will sound insensitive and thick-headed, but I'm actually being serious for once -

If you can't completely exponge the thing, maybe take the same approach as the guys who fix bad credit ratings, i.e., get healthy again (I assume you will), then just load up on showcases and evaluations for awhile. Might take a lot of work, but maybe you can kind of bury it that way?

The problem I've got with this is he said he went to the showcase a few weeks after he got out of the hospital.

Really?

Is baseball THAT important?

Let's get our priorities straight. Not an admonishment, kid, just an observation.

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Originally posted by Bum:
The problem I've got with this is he said he went to the showcase a few weeks after he got out of the hospital.

Really?

Is baseball THAT important?

Let's get our priorities straight. Not an admonishment, kid, just an observation.

I am not totally going to disagree with you here, just mostly. I have a son who is currently playing at a mid-level D1 who was diagnosed wit Type 1 diabetes at approximately the same age as this boy (my son's onset was 3 days into his freshman year). Would I have sent him to a PG showcase 2-3 weeks after onset? Most definitely no!

But baseball was VERY important in my son's case, and played a huge role in the return of his life to something near "normal." Before Type 1 diabetes, it was the normal that didn't include constant monitoring of blood glucose (7-10 times per day) and multiple injections of 2 different types of insulin (4-6 times per day). Baseball was the one constant that spanned that timeframe of before diabetes and after diabetes in his life and my life as his caregiver.

In my son's case he returned to the 18U HS fall baseball league he was playing as a 15 year old freshman less then 2 weeks after onset, and with permission from his endocrinologist. He had regained almost all of the nearly 20 pounds he had lost, and began to learn to live as a diabetic baseball player and a person with diabetes.

When my son was first diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic, I as a parent, had no clue about what diabetes was or how to deal with it. They tell you coming out of the hospital that life can just go on and to just keep track and monitor his BG. They kind of just send you out there and have you go to education classes over time. Trust me, mistakes can be made... We made plenty of them.

Maybe the only problem I have here is with being critical of a 15 year old, when you really would like to talk with the parents. The kids can't help with what the parents have done. And having gone through this as a parent, I fully understand, MISTAKES CAN BE MADE.

I would never assume anything about another person's situation, or what their doctors or educators had advised. Just what my situation was...

I am sorry to have totally hijacked this string, just a subject matter that is so misunderstood and very personal for me.

Lets not dwell on the negative here. Look at the upside...the next Showcase he attends will show weight gain as well as , IMO, a significant performace gain

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Originally posted by lefthookdad:
Lets not dwell on the negative here. Look at the upside...the next Showcase he attends will show weight gain as well as , IMO, a significant performace gain

I agree. And sometimes showing a positive gain is better than showing up at the top of your game in the first place.

The OP is only a sophomore in high school according to his profile so I think any coach or scout would see that there is a good chance of improvement as he gets older anyway. So don't worry guy, you are not locked into that showing and skill level forever and astute coaches know this.

[quote]When my son was first diagnosed as a Type 1 Diabetic, I as a parent, had no clue about what diabetes was or how to deal with it. They tell you coming out of the hospital that life can just go on and to just keep track and monitor his BG. They kind of just send you out there and have you go to education classes over time. Trust me, mistakes can be made... We made plenty of them.

That is dead on Birdman. There is a lot of confusion during the first month or so, or longer, after being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. As parents, we had no idea what was going to happen with our son and baseball, or life in general for that matter. In the end, except for him being stuck with diabetes, things have worked out pretty well. I would recommend to "makeittotheleague" that you get your blood sugars under control, attend another showcase and earn a higher rating. I wish you the best of luck.

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Originally posted by birdman14:
Maybe the only problem I have here is with being critical of a 15 year old

I'm not. I feel for the kid. But I've been around baseball enough to know the types of parents that surround 15 y.o.'s. And since this is a learning experience where we all can share.. any parents out there.. give these kids a break.

Let them be kids first. Let them live their lives. Is it worth risking their health for a showcase?

My message is to the parents, not the kid. Glad the kid's okay.

Well stated Bum

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Originally posted by birdman14:
I would never assume anything about another person's situation, or what their doctors or educators had advised. Just what my situation was...

Based on the advise we received coming out of the hospital and before education classes, I can tell you, through no fault of the parents, this can occur. As long as he gained a good portion of his weight back, doctors will assume he is OK. A more likely thing that would occur would be a lack of good control of his blood glucose levels, then the recent weight loss. We do agree that we both, using common sense, would have never sent our sons out in a situation where the must "perform" unless we had seen first (ie, practices and games over time) if they could.

If his parents are the type of parent you describe, unfortunately "reaching them" through their child on a forum might be difficult or impossible. Otherwise, they are quite aware of what they did. I am just glad you didn't hear about all the mistakes we made with my son... I personally cringe at some of them!

The good thing going on here is the OP is only 15 and there is plenty of time to get in front of PG again and show his true abilities. There are many cases when PG scores improve over a couple of years time.

makeit,
Welcome to the site. So, the good advice given here is to contact PG about the current numbers and, more importantly, start preparing for the next opportunity so you can show great improvement and a more accurate picture of the player you can be.

A story I want to share with you...
I coach HS baseball. One of my favorite players over the years was diagnosed when he was 13 or 14. It took him about six months or so to settle in to the routine that would allow him to function in a normal way, just like all his friends and teammates. He adjusted very well. He went on to become an all-league player in baseball and football and received a significant academic sholarship to a great college, where he is currently flourishing and very excited about his future. He is also one of the healthiest young men I know. At baseball practices, it became part of the routine for him to step away as needed to test and it was no big deal to anyone. He had/has a great positive attitude and willingness to work to overcome obstacles, whether that be a challenge on the field or a challenge adjusting to life with the disease. That is what it takes. Be that kid.
Best wishes.

All, often as parents after a diagnosis that takes time to wrap your head around for both parent and child, the last thing you want to do is start by telling your child you Can't do something like a showcase that I assume they had already committed to. The message I think is critical to your son is you CAN, go and give it your best and we'll figure it out from there.

Makeit, my take is you are mature beyond your years to reach out to fix it yourself. I think there is every chance that your hopes, in light of how you don't seem to be letting the diagnosis ruin what you want to accomplish or stop you from participating in anything, your chances of achieving your goals is GREAT. Nothing ventured nothing gained as you embark on a new normal for you. Use what appears to be a great strength, the lack of fear of failure to continue to guide you. Best of luck and keep the faith. Most of our kids have had a bad performance simply because baseball is hard if we are honest, you are not alone and it will work out.