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My son just finished his sophomore season as well ( I was confused by your username being 2015).The first thing I would tell you is to get on the best travel team on which he will play and you can afford. Perhaps some camps in the fall at schools he may be interested in. And a Perfect Game showcase when it is close to you. Looks like they have a few in June and August in New Jersey. Here is the link http://perfectgame.org/Schedul....aspx?Type=Showcases

You will get a rating and a good sense of where your son's playing level is at from objective scouts who know.

Check out the recruiting timeline on this site.
You can also search this site as there are oodles of threads on this topic.

I'm sure others will chime in. This site has a wealth of information and the posters are very knowledgeable. Good Luck!

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Originally posted by Dad2015:
My son is a sophomore in HS playing on a stacked JV team and really doesn't get the PT he deserves mainly because we are fairly new to the area.

Hello and welcome,
My advice - starting this moment, absolutely refuse to allow your son or yourself to buy into the notion that he doesn't get PT because he is new to the area. If he's been with the program for 3-4 weeks or more, the coaches have a pretty good idea of what he brings to the table from a skill standpoint and probably from a make-up standpoint as well. He needs to be determined to work hard enough to create separation from the pack and leave no doubt when the line-up card is written.

Ask the right questions at the right places, as you are doing, regarding the college recruiting/exposure standpoint. But don't get so caught up in that process that you both don't enjoy the HS experience to the fullest.

Follow 2013's advice regarding a good summer team and a PG event ASAP. I suspect this will give you a much better perspective on where your son stands and what direction to go from there.

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...starting this moment, absolutely refuse to allow your son or yourself to buy into the notion that he doesn't get PT because he is new to the area...

What he said... X 100.

There are many posts on this subject on the site. My advice would be get him to play for a good Summer organization where he can get playing time. My understanding is that most kids get looks in the Summer playing for select/travel teams rather than playing in High School. He will also get better playing against top competition, which will help him get noticed by High School coach.

Dad2015,

There are plenty of elite summer teams around Westchester. Coach Merc, who posts here all the time, runs one of the best. I encourage you to contact him directly. HS ball is rife with politics in many cases, but to use that as an excuse is doing a disservice to your son. Even if you are 100% correct in your assessment, it does not get you anywhere. Convince him to use getting the shaft as motivation - not an excuse.

My advice after going thru this process is High School baseball is not as important these days as it was in the past. You can get on a good Summer Travel Team, and Fall Team and get playing time against better competition. My son after playing years of travel ball got to high school and its like a 16-18 year old park league. The only competition we saw was from the big city teams that have tons of players to choose from. If I had to do it all over again I would have spent the bucks on off season private lessons with a good coach. As its the off season when you can get a head of everyone else, as all players are playing baseball in the summer and if thats all you do then your just doing what everyone else is doing. But in todays world there are more and more players doing the off season thing. You need games but games are not always the best place to tune your skills. Also hit the weights if you have the body they will favor you. But do weight lifting smart especially if your a pitcher. Be carefull with weight lifting !! Lastly you got to get hitting practice from some some one pitching from at least 50 to 60 feet. I see so many of these high school coaches these days doing 90 % of hitting practice pitching from 20- 30 feet away and it messes with a batters timing.

If you're a sophomore and not getting playing time on the JV team, stacked or not, you may want to consider golf or bowling. Instead of private lessons and travel ball buy him a nice set of golf clubs, he'll get 15 years out of them. If he gets a lot better over the next 2 years then walk-on at a school where he's got a great fit academically.