What is the best way to market your kid if he is berried on his HS baseball dept chart.
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Welcome, Bombsaway.
You don't.
"Marketing" your player, if you mean calling or emailing the coach and/or other parents to tell him/them your son's accomplishments on different teams or before high school, never comes across the way you hope it will.
The young man needs to find out from his coach where he needs to improve his game. Then, with your help and support, and if he has the desire, he needs to work very hard to make those improvements. And during that time, he should try to be the best teammate he can be, and market himself to the coach with his hard work.
Good luck!
You don't.
"Marketing" your player, if you mean calling or emailing the coach and/or other parents to tell him/them your son's accomplishments on different teams or before high school, never comes across the way you hope it will.
The young man needs to find out from his coach where he needs to improve his game. Then, with your help and support, and if he has the desire, he needs to work very hard to make those improvements. And during that time, he should try to be the best teammate he can be, and market himself to the coach with his hard work.
Good luck!
He needs to market his own skills. You can help by providing him the opportunity to do that.
1.) Find a travel team that he can play on (the operative word there being play) that attends tournaments that are scouted.
2.) Get him to a showcase or two to be evaluated and get some objective opinions on his skill sets and where they might fit in the future and what he may have to improve.
3.) Find a team, maybe it's the existing travel team you found for him, maybe you need to find another, and get him to the WWBA Championships in Jupiter to be seen.
If it was my kid, those would be three things that I would think would have the most impact. Others will probably have great suggestions also.
1.) Find a travel team that he can play on (the operative word there being play) that attends tournaments that are scouted.
2.) Get him to a showcase or two to be evaluated and get some objective opinions on his skill sets and where they might fit in the future and what he may have to improve.
3.) Find a team, maybe it's the existing travel team you found for him, maybe you need to find another, and get him to the WWBA Championships in Jupiter to be seen.
If it was my kid, those would be three things that I would think would have the most impact. Others will probably have great suggestions also.
Who threw the berries at him? 
quote:Originally posted by CPLZ:
He needs to market his own skills. You can help by providing him the opportunity to do that.
1.) Find a travel team that he can play on (the operative word there being play) that attends tournaments that are scouted.
2.) Get him to a showcase or two to be evaluated and get some objective opinions on his skill sets and where they might fit in the future and what he may have to improve.
3.) Find a team, maybe it's the existing travel team you found for him, maybe you need to find another, and get him to the WWBA Championships in Jupiter to be seen.
If it was my kid, those would be three things that I would think would have the most impact. Others will probably have great suggestions also.
Good stuff CPLZ. You might want to add the WWBA tourney PG puts on in summer as well.
I think that lots of players get lost because mom or dad are too busy sending stuff out to the coaches, when what the player really needs is be in front of them.
CPLZ and TPM are right. I read it as though you were hoping to get your son to the top of the HS depth chart.
2Bmom you could be right, I really have no clue lately what anyone really means when they post. 
Bombsaway, welcome to the HSBBW.
Bombsaway, welcome to the HSBBW.
I also think OP is asking about current HS coach but it is not clear and even if not...my advice is have your son out work, out hustle and out play those standing in his way. "Can't get to the top if you can't top 'em!"
Give him the tools and have him start digging.
There is not one thing that can't help its a group of things that you have to do Then after doing all you can Your son has to do all he can do.
I think we can help do the leg work,so they can do the real work. We can't play ball for them
( my son is better then me anyway)but we can teach them or get them to the right teachers so next time there doing something they are one of the best.
I have my son read things off this site as well as other pages, I take him to College camps and smaller camps, I drive him to The Chain baseball club for batting cages or rain out days, pick him up from the high school, he is the last to leave always every time if he is not helping clean up he is running one more lap ( and not because he was told too), or working on something he felt weak on that day.
Have your son do the talking when it come to High school and coaches after HS.
Have him do all the paper work or do it with him.
My son is a 10th grader was Starting JV pitcher last year & closer for B-team batting 5th both teams, this year team has alot 12th/11th & 10th grade pitchers and no JV catcher so he will play JV catcher and relief Var's pitcher, he says his love is pitching but the team/school needs him to catch.
Right now is the time to get ready for next years try outs.
If you want to stand out do outstanding things.
There is not one thing that can't help its a group of things that you have to do Then after doing all you can Your son has to do all he can do.
I think we can help do the leg work,so they can do the real work. We can't play ball for them
( my son is better then me anyway)but we can teach them or get them to the right teachers so next time there doing something they are one of the best.
I have my son read things off this site as well as other pages, I take him to College camps and smaller camps, I drive him to The Chain baseball club for batting cages or rain out days, pick him up from the high school, he is the last to leave always every time if he is not helping clean up he is running one more lap ( and not because he was told too), or working on something he felt weak on that day.
Have your son do the talking when it come to High school and coaches after HS.
Have him do all the paper work or do it with him.
My son is a 10th grader was Starting JV pitcher last year & closer for B-team batting 5th both teams, this year team has alot 12th/11th & 10th grade pitchers and no JV catcher so he will play JV catcher and relief Var's pitcher, he says his love is pitching but the team/school needs him to catch.
Right now is the time to get ready for next years try outs.
If you want to stand out do outstanding things.