grades

Not schools... Professional Teams!

 

TPM, size, power, velocity, agility, timing, approach and what kind of fight is in your belly! Doctors train to be doctors! Baseball Players train to become Professional Baseball Players! I like my son's chances! If I were a betting man? I can only tell you what other scouts, professional baseball players, coaches, have reiterated in regards to his talent, and achievements, mind you... he just turned 16 years of age! 216 lbs., 6"ft and growing!

Ok, but this was about grades for college.
My opinion work on the college scholarship first.
Let me know when he gets drafted.

As a Father, I am doing all that I can, to fulfil my son's effort and desire! I apologize if I come across a little coarse, understand! This is his dream... my job is to help him achieve yet again!

Been there done it. I got ya.

Now back to the importance of good grades for college.

Good grades are important even if a kid wants to sign out of high school. Without good grades a draftee loses bargaining power if he doesn't have a great college offer to leverage. A kid should go to college unless he gets life changing money. It's a big challenge to be eighteen competing against more physically and mentally mature twenty-one and twenty-two year olds in A ball. 

I tell my 2016 that he is one injury away from being a student only and that the odds say that he will earn a living with his brain, not a ball. My job as a parent is to prepare him for any eventuality. Make the best grades you are capable of and prepare to make the most of your physical talents. In my opinion, you are not nurturing the whole child if it's all about athletics. At some point, his playing days will be over, and at a minimum, he will need the education to ensure his financial security. I am from Houston, and I can recall a time when the great J.R. Richard lived in a cardboard box under a freeway. I'm sure his parents never thought that would happen. 

GOTCHA! With all diversions our children face... Focus on the goal is key! Wish you and your son great success.

 

Good grades give you options. The more options, the better choices you have at your disposal. Very good advice, as usual so far on this question. IF grades don't improve, it's usually Juco or pro ball (low to no dinero)...if you are good enough on the field.

I think what the coach who recruited my son to the JC here in Florida said to him during his visit with him sums it all up. "You have ACC, SEC talent, but you aint going nowhere with those grades kid!" True story, even truer statement.

My child currently has a 3.0, in regards to his talent and power with size... and growing! I can tell you my wish and work as a father is to try and help him become the next Albert Einstein and save all of humanity! The reality is Einstein can not throw 90mph or hit 400ft? Education is a life long effort!

 

My job is to fill his mind with everything I know... I am 51 yrs. old, I Teach my son, how to be a MAN!  his talent we develope and enhance. In life we fight, that's all! If he makes the Big Leagues, good! We have sacrificed our time and effort! At 6' 0" 216 lbs., at the age of 16 yrs., of age, with Black Belts, Brn. Belts, Blue Belts, etc., with 5 STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS! Compete everyone?

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Okay...am I the only one who doesn't understand how a Little League and PONY League State TEAM championships and 3 non baseball related state championships have to do with this thread about grades?  I don't care what your child's TEAM has done, there will be a time when his baseball days are over.  That's where having the self-discipline to make good grades in school will be most important.  Does he have the eduction to support himself at age 22, 32, 42...?

 

 

Where is TR when you need him ? 

Matty, wasting time!  Let it go!

Holy Smokes!  Some people just don't get it...

Bilal K -

 

You must be careful in filling your son's mind with everything you know - young minds can only take so much information. It took me many years to learn to teleport, and my rich aunt Zoot was very careful with my early training so I did not damage and burn down the house. You too should be very careful with your son. Make sure he does not like anything fluffy and furry as it will attract a Grue. 

 

Let us know when your son reaches 6'2" and 227.5 lbs.

 

Oh and long toss is good for young arms and improving grades.

 

Tim

 

 

 

 

This topic has some good stuff in it!

Nice bio.  Got some extra time on your hands in the off season, eh pardner?

 

Be careful.  I think the guy threatened to have his son beat me up.

Wildacats,

 

No one holds a candle to the guy who wanted to know the best state where his son could play year round and he could build a full size field next to the house he was going to build. If I recall he had a jet also. TPM probably remembers him. Classic. 

 

JCG, no one messes with Tim the Enchanter ! 

Tim,I grew up in a place called Scudder Homes! in Newark, N.J., I had a guy on this blog call me a moron? For trying to achieve... I am enjoying fatherhood with the genetics and intellect that is key for the survival/education of my lil' man! also we suffer from a condition that is called Machismo, We FIGHT! I do not need anyone's permission or opinion to exist and prosper! by the way there are levels to a fight. Anyway, thank you for your advice in regards to preparing my child for the realities and people in life.

Also, Khalil is projected to grow 6' 4" to 6' 6" in height, if you look at his hands and the length of his arms... This is so not fair! to his competitors.

 

Matty, it is called talent! In Martial Arts and in Baseball, I receive invitations from the whole U.S.A., To learn how to compete, to learn to achieve, and continue to build on your education in H.S., in all advanced honors classes! A complete student in life! By the way he hits and kicks people the same way he hits those baseballs!

When I played little league ball 35 yrs ago and alcohol wasn't forbidden at ball parks my mother use to cheer me on from the stands drinking her whiskey sour while I was in the outfield.  Yes I was embarassed.  Don't be that parent Bilal. 

 

I just thought I would throw that random thought in there.  

Lionbaseball, My son had practice and conditioning today after school, I brought him home after 13.5 hrs at work... I wish I had the time to drink a beer!

“I constantly try to humble myself; if you don't, I'm sure the game is going to find a way to humble you.”  - Evan Longoria

 

For what it's worth.  Which probably isn't much.

 

NYDAD, Stop! Our approach is not humble, it is competitive! A winner in whatever you put your mind to, this is the only way to exercise will! THIS IS WHY WE TRAIN! THIS IS WHY WE ACHIEVE! THIS IS WHY WE GROW,,, FOLLOW!

 

You can always be competitive.  But always be humble also.

 

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

 

 

People, I just received a invitation for my child to play in Europe/South America, he is being billed as the second coming of Frank Thomas/ Ce Ce Sabathia, HE LIVES, He GROWS, my son amazes everyone! I understand your frustration! This game is called baseball the greatest game in our Nation,,, WE NEED PLAYERS THAT WILL FIGHT FOR OUR COUNTRY!

Ever thought of joining the military instead?

The second coming of Frank Thomas hit .288 in high school last year. PG has him listed as 5'9", 174 in September 2014.

NYDAD, We are family! I was born in Elmhurst Queens and lived on Albany St., in Brooklyn, I can be a good guy... once I find like people! SUCKER FREE,,, My responsibility is to my child and wife! THAT's ALL! is that wrong?

 

Your responsibilities aren't wrong, but it's nothing that should be spoken of. It's what a husband and father SHOULD do.  There are no awards for that.

 

Let your son's actions and accomplishments speak for themselves.  Be proud, but do not boast.  That's my opinion.

 

And we're not family.  Trust me.

 

Oh, sheeze, you got me. Max preps shows him as bigger by last spring. Yeah, .288 is not high but he was a frosh, and with his power he looks like a nice player.  BTW I don't see CC or the Big Hurt as MMA guys, and in fact that's true of almost all MLB guys, except maybe Puig, cause I don't see how MMA and baseball athletes would have much in common.

 

Mr. Almutasim,  may I humbly and respectfully suggest that your son may not appreciate you talking to anonymous strangers on the internet about him in this way.  I don't know your son, but I do know quite a few teenagers, and I am very confident that none of them would approve.

NYDAD, I'm good! understand my cheeks hurt! I am so proud... All this work and training non-stop for 12 yrs. is coming to fluition! His School is a A grade school, not a B, or a C, or a D, and then you have the F school? Are you a 4.0 in a F school? Life will weed you out! 

We lived in the same state, you are right we are not family! I am a Man, like you have never met or become! As for my son,,, walk away, and leave this Man alone!

Bilal K
Any video out there of your boy, sure would like to see what he brings to the table. Thanks

It's a shame everyone else's kid on this site is athletic and/or academic  chopped liver. Bilil, your boy is a puppy compared to some of the big dogs here.

Look us up on facebook! I do not know these people, I am wasting my time... trying to teach the right way to raising their children in year 2015... We have 12 years of Martial arts training with STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS/ vs a whole lot of nothing! Catch up! just imagine... your child confronting "THE BIG CAT" in anything! HA HA!