Perfect Game

Regardless of what bright things his future brings, very few can say they've pitched a perfect game. Congrats!

Wow, very exciting!  Congrats!

911 do you have an emergency - yes we have a father stroking out on the first base line in shallow right of a perfect game

911 is his son pitching? - yes -

911- ok call us back after the inning.

Pitching a perfect game is a tremendous accomplishment at any level of baseball. Congratulations to your son and hope for continued success.

Congratulations to your son, that's incredible.  Enjoy the journey.

@bshane, there are 23 juco baseball programs in Florida. Would your son be interested in junior college? Has he already applied to any other colleges unrelated to baseball? There are also a handful of D3 schools in the southeast, but none in Florida. Many, many to choose from in the northeast.

https://www.ncaa.org/sports/20...rship-directory.aspx

He will play wherever he is loved. Florida Jucos are super strong in our immediate area, the panhandle. But since the perfect game his travel guys are ramping up to try getting him looks. But one thing I learned from this forum is go where you are loved and wanted. No D1 illusions with us.

NJCAA D2 Region 23 has 16 programs in Mississippi. There might be an opportunity there. Time to do some research to figure out which programs could be interested in a RHP sitting 86. That might be as simple as calling coaches and asking.

Seeing as his growth is recent, there may be more velo coming, but you can't count on that. BTW, pretty impressive that he didn't walk one batter after completely changing his body. That normally take a toll on command, initially.

Unless he has a specific type of school in mind, like a small northeast liberal arts college, I think his best bet is to contact juco coaches directly. Be ready to send video (with radar) would help a coach determine if he might be interest. Remember, he can do an on-campus tryouts at juco schools this spring. Good luck.

https://www.njcaa.org/sports/bsb/teams

Great info, his travel team is based out of that area, they just expanded towards us.  Yeah he has always had great control and hitting his spots. Commands his fastball and change. Curve is usually decent command as well as his slider. Just never had the velo.  When he went through his original height growth spurt he only suffered the baby deer stage with hittng and fielding, neither height or added muscle did anything to his pitching except added velo and increased his speed on the bases tremendously. He was one of the slowest kids on his HS team, now he’s top three. I sincerely appreciate all the input. I’ll do my best to update when and if things start happening. One of his teams scouts are coming to see him this weekend since we play the defending 1A state champs and he’s scheduled to pitch.

@MidAtlanticDad posted:

NJCAA D2 Region 23 has 16 programs in Mississippi. There might be an opportunity there. Time to do some research to figure out which programs could be interested in a RHP sitting 86. That might be as simple as calling coaches and asking.

Seeing as his growth is recent, there may be more velo coming, but you can't count on that. BTW, pretty impressive that he didn't walk one batter after completely changing his body. That normally take a toll on command, initially.

Unless he has a specific type of school in mind, like a small northeast liberal arts college, I think his best bet is to contact juco coaches directly. Be ready to send video (with radar) would help a coach determine if he might be interest. Remember, he can do an on-campus tryouts at juco schools this spring. Good luck.

https://www.njcaa.org/sports/bsb/teams

Don’t let the D2 JuCo mislead you about NJCAA Region 23. It’s one of the toughest regions top to bottom in all of NJCAA baseball. LSU Eunice and Pearl River are perennial powers but there are a handful of others that can compete with anyone year in and year out. For whatever reason Region 23 doesn’t get the national respect that it deserves but I’m here to give them their props.

Well, I figured since you guys were all a huge help in the way we approached this process I wanted to update you guys on my son. Finished Senior season with 60 innings pitched, 90k's ERA of 0.58 and 11 walks plus his batting average was .420. When you add a PG to those stats, I don't think he could've done much better. We were invited to come to watch John Melvin University and he did pregame infield and BP with them. Well, nothing but about 7-8 days after the visit the coach starts communicating with my son. He really stays in touch constantly. So, we begin to understand he is definitely loved and told several times he will see playing time immediately. The coach finally wants to talk to dad, and we have an hour or so conversation and it seems like a great fit. In the meantime, he gets a little attention from Spring Hill in Mobile and a couple teams from up North offer him strictly off social media, etc etc. Well, he is leaving for senior trip and just before the coach makes him an offer and I wasn't sure he completely understands what the coach said. Well, the coach knows he is on Senior trip and texts me to call when I can. He basically offers enough tuition money for year one and year two that dad is like, no one is going to match this. Academics played a huge role with his 3.8 GPA. This coach definitely wants him so now it's in his hands. I am guiding him but trying to make sure he is making his 40yr plan. It's a small independent school (new to Crowley LA), but they have a sports science program and the classes to put him into physical therapy if that's his direction. So, he makes the decision after we are eliminated from the regionals. He is going to be a Miller. The coach really believes once he gets him on campus after year two, he will have turned him into a legit college pitcher who will most likely get offers from bigger programs and that is his goal. If not, he would love to have him for four years. So very thankful for all the input from all of you guys. Now he is back in the weight room almost daily and practicing to be ready for summer travel ball.

Wow!  Awesome story.  I doubt he is capped at that velo either.  You never know where this will lead.  Good luck!

Congratulations!

Thank you

Yeah I think he’s going to see an uptick in velo and his coach really believes he’s nowhere near his potential. At 6’4” ( coach sees 3-4 years for physical maturity)  and 185-190 and touching 86-87, just give us 6-8 months and I’d be shocked if he’s not 200 and sitting 86-87. 6’4” can hold some weight and they are a driveline focused school now. I know everyone has varying opinions on Driveline but if arm care is handled, velo is really his missing component. Obviously 60 innings and only 11-12 free bases shows some pretty good control to say the least. He’s found discipline this year, so if it’s in there somewhere to be a 90 plus guy it’ll be genetics not the hard work to stop him. O