How to gain weight for high school players

I’ll check it out. My son saw first hand how size matters. He was at a showcase tryout recently. A kid in his catcher group is 6’2”, 210. My son is 5’11”, 140. My son was better in every category and significantly in a couple. Not just me being a dad thinking that, his coach who is a part of the org running it told him so. To top it off, the kid threw an inning during a scrimmage and my son smoked one off the fence. The bigger kid made the national team and my son didn’t. 

He’s now got more motivation to eat and work out. 

I enjoyed the read, I think it a good road map for kids/parents new to this. I would just suggest for the lifting to be properly supervised by a professional to both assess any specific areas of deficiencies in movement for improvement and to ensure proper form as there is a potential for injury. Also, if the parent have means the same should be done with nutrition. Unfortunately there is a bias towards size, but this can be a good teach for our kids to control what they can and provide them with the motivation to work harder.

A kid I know was a HS sophomore, could do everything, really good hitter, fast, athletic, but only 5’6” and small dad too. College coaches knew about him and liked him. I heard one say....if he grows we’ll offer him. The kid will play somewhere but maybe not at the highest level.

This is great thank you. Trying to see if we can get this pinned because this is a frequently asked question.

I'm not knocking the idea that high school players need to include weights and conditioning into their program or that they need to make sure they are eating enough to grow stronger, but some of this makes me a bit uncomfortable.  I'm not sure high school freshman and sophomores need to be tracking all of their calories each day and engaging in a rigorous eating program in order to keep growing bigger, stronger, faster.  At some point the obsession with weight gain and eating can become unhealthy in its own right.

Also, not every college freshman stepping onto a college baseball field for the first time is going to look like a man.  I have only to look over UGA's 2020 roster (a top D1 program) to see that the weight of their players varies a lot and that generally the freshmen are a good bit lighter than the seniors, which can be accounted for by four years of college-level athletic training.

I don't think a high school sophomore or junior needs to be 200 lbs to be recruited by a P5 D1 program.  Personally know some skinny twigs who have committed to D1 baseball programs.  And, no doubt, they will not be skinny twigs by the time they are college seniors.