Freshman Baseball.

So if I have this right most of the schools sophmore classes are terrible so most of the freshman move up? Or do most of the sophmores then move up to take the place of the juniors and seniors? Why were the kids in our area not throwing from 60 during the summer of 8th grade? What conference are you in?

Lineshot, there's alot of players that wil make the Freshman team that have only played local rec ball. Let's face it when schools take 30 players on Freshman A and B. The talent pool is going to be limited. That's why alot of Freshman baseball is like watching paint dry. There's still alot of talented players that will be playing Freshman ball, that will be the future of their school. That's why I said keep things realistic and continue to work on getting better. Let's hope for some good early season weather. Those 40 degree games in April can really be tough.

there are several leagues that still pitch from 54 feet and play 80 foot bases through the 14u divisions. these kids have a difficult time adjusting to the 90 foot bases and throwing from 60, once they start trying out for HS.

Hawk88, right on. Our Freshman team has about 7 guys that played "select" and the rest played rec. I think a lot of communities are that way. We have 3 that played "select" that aren't with the freshmen and will play JV. One of those is getting a great shot at winning a varsity spot.

Yes, the games are long and the pitching is terrible. Our kids pitched at 58 during the summer. They used -5 bats. They played 86 foot bases. You are going to see incrediable things. Take along your sense of humor. We have a very good coach down there that has tremendous patience and the kids love playing for him. He'll teach the game and do what is right by them to enable them to compete for a spot next year. That's what freshman ball is or should be about. JMHO!

considering i have played travel baseball over the past 3-4 summers, freshmen baseball seems very...interesting. yes, a lot of cold afternoons and playing into the dark. having 12 kids in the game and 13 sitting out is a bit tough too.

I gotta disagree with Hawk but it might be because of our school. Sandburg is a great baseball school and even our freshmen team is pretty good. Only one guy on our team HASN'T played travel. We actually look like a travel team or even 2 travel teams if we split the team in half. Plus our pitchers all have pitched before and are all used to the distance.

Not sure about how other schools are though. I woudln't be surprised if that's how it is.

thats the same thing with Fenwick, also, Hawk, you said that most good freshaman players get moved up to at least sophmore, thats not the case here, there wasnt 1 freshan moved up to sophmore, or even a sophmore moving up to varsity