Showball Format for Primary Pitchers

In our experience, pitchers only threw for one team on day 2. I honestly can’t remember day 1.

Thanks @Senna. Trying to figure out if he should do primary pitcher secondary catcher or just PO. Someone told me the Primary pitchers and PO’s threw a pen on day 1 and also did the secondary position defensive drills and BP.

@TerribleBPthrower I have to confess, I had a sinus infection when we were at son’s camp and was so drugged up I can barely remember it. I pulled the schedule we received but it just had time blocks, not specific stations/times.

I suggest just shooting Showball an email, they were really good at responding to our questions.

Lefty did Showball last summer as a true PO.  

Day One, It's a "wash" day. You basically do nothing, worked for my kid but he likes to get the lay of the land in advance if he can. Lefty played MIF as the catchers were doing their their throw downs, which was quite the experience, as a lefty he's never played MIF.  He did something for other positions too, but this was the most notable for us  It did however give him time to be noticed- he's 6'2" with long arms and room to fill out and LEFT handed.  He got some time to chat with the evaluating coaches that others did not.  Probably not as beneficial if you aren't a tall(ish) lefty or other player that will immediatly pass the eye test.

Day two is hard.  You do pitch twice.  There are two different games and at the camp we attended two different locations.  Lefty basically did his best to stay warm between games and never really cooled down between.   The number of innings you get I think depends on how many POs are attending, Lefty got extra innings his second game because a kid got a sore arm.  Worked out for him, the coach of the team he's committed to was the coach calling ball/strikes from behind the mound for that game (they take turns).  He started recruiting him right there, but my smart student was too dumb to realize it.  Afterwards he was told me the coach umpiring was throwing him off by asking him questions between batters like "what do you want to major in?" "how many AP classes have you taken?" (Its a HA D3)

I believe on day 1 if you want to do defensive drills you can but as a parent have to push a little beforehand.  But you have to be careful the arm needs to be fresh for Sunday.  I also remember lefty managed to not have anything to do during batting practice because he managed to watch players from the two teams he was playing the next day and began formulating pitch sequences based on what he saw during BP.

@LousyLefty posted:

Lefty did Showball last summer as a true PO.  

Day One, It's a "wash" day. You basically do nothing, worked for my kid but he likes to get the lay of the land in advance if he can. Lefty played MIF as the catchers were doing their their throw downs, which was quite the experience, as a lefty he's never played MIF.  He did something for other positions too, but this was the most notable for us  It did however give him time to be noticed- he's 6'2" with long arms and room to fill out and LEFT handed.  He got some time to chat with the evaluating coaches that others did not.  Probably not as beneficial if you aren't a tall(ish) lefty or other player that will immediatly pass the eye test.

Day two is hard.  You do pitch twice.  There are two different games and at the camp we attended two different locations.  Lefty basically did his best to stay warm between games and never really cooled down between.   The number of innings you get I think depends on how many POs are attending, Lefty got extra innings his second game because a kid got a sore arm.  Worked out for him, the coach of the team he's committed to was the coach calling ball/strikes from behind the mound for that game (they take turns).  He started recruiting him right there, but my smart student was too dumb to realize it.  Afterwards he was told me the coach umpiring was throwing him off by asking him questions between batters like "what do you want to major in?" "how many AP classes have you taken?" (Its a HA D3)

I believe on day 1 if you want to do defensive drills you can but as a parent have to push a little beforehand.  But you have to be careful the arm needs to be fresh for Sunday.  I also remember lefty managed to not have anything to do during batting practice because he managed to watch players from the two teams he was playing the next day and began formulating pitch sequences based on what he saw during BP.

Did you know in advance there would be multiple locations for the camp? The Chicago/Naperville camp lists a college as the venue but there is only one field. I don’t see how they can make that work for the games on day 2  

As of right now he is registered as primary P and secondary C. They said he would do the catcher drills and BP on day one and only pitch on day 2. Might switch to PO before the camp depending on what the college coaches say leading up to it.

We found out about a week before.  Unless it's a drastic departure from what we experienced (or I guess a really small camp) you need two fields.  

That’s what I was thinking. Last summer HF had 4 fields going at one time. It was one complex though so coaches could easily bounce around to see different kids.

@TerribleBPthrower posted:

That’s what I was thinking. Last summer HF had 4 fields going at one time. It was one complex though so coaches could easily bounce around to see different kids.

I think I would prefer the two field format.  There was no "bouncing".  Coaches split up 50/50 and stayed at one field or the other, they saw every single kid.  Now you could tell they were crossing some off the list pretty quickly but every kid got at least a chance.  

@LousyLefty The headfirst Format definitely gave each kid the chance to be seen. But as you mentioned somewhere crossed off pretty quickly. There was also a coach or two from some big-name schools who were clearly only there for the check. One didn’t even have a clipboard in his hand. I’ve actually heard from others about this specific coach so I didn’t have high expectations

Depending on the program some of these guys don't need a program.  I'll use Stanford as a hypothetical because they weren't at Showball (so this is completely made up).  He would be looking for a level of player that there is one, maybe two kids at a camp.  Don't need a clipboard for that.  But I get it.

Anybody know how Showball does their 60? Laser, hand, first move?