Awhile back I saw a spreadsheet that laid out guidelines for High School students by year---Freshman year you can do this, and expect that, Soph year, etc...
Does anyone have a link for that or know a good place to look for again...?
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This website has checklists, but not a single pager.
https://keepplayingbaseball.org/yearly-checklists/
I would think a single timeline shouldn't exist, as it is different for every player. And with Covid, it's slightly skewed right now, who knows when it will return to "normal".
Timelines are not one size fits all. What and when a player has something to show matters more than class year. A D1 prospect and a D3 prospect would have a much different timeline.
I really like KeepPlayingBaseball, but I found their timeline pretty confusing. They at least try to break a timeline into players of different talent levels: if you are a top D1 recruit, it will look like this, if you are a D3 recruit it will look like that. What they don't tell you is, what a D1 recruit looks like freshman year, what a D3 recruit looks like junior year, etc.
I haven't gone to this link, from this website, in a while. There was talk of updating it, so not sure it has been done yet? Worth a look:
I remember someone sharing a spreadsheet here in 2019...or maybe early 2020? Pretty sure it was 2019 because I can picture myself sitting at work modifying it for my son and I was working from home for most of 2020.
Anyway, I thought it was an excellent spreadsheet and I remember sharing it with my wife and saying these are the steps and milestones...
But, along with @RJM - none of it mattered. Or, maybe some of helped but it wasn't major.
Best bet on getting recruited is being referred by a trusted source and then having the coach see something in you that really connects for him.
Much of this may be outdated, but it may help you get organized.