Too late to start looking.

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http://www.osubeavers.com/ot/recruiting.html

Greg - first welcome to the site and hope you enjoy yourself.

As for your question there are a few things (grade, age) that you didn't put that might help.

Overall - the odds are against you but it's still not out of the realm of possibilities. You need to be completely honest with your abilities and best way to do that is get an impartial opinion from someone who knows baseball to evaluate you. If he says your DI material then start there but if you are NAIA material then start there. There is nothing wrong or bad with the level of ball you play. Yes the competition is better as you go up but playing college baseball is playing college baseball.

Once you get the honest assessment start contacting coaches (assuming you are a HS senior right now). You may have to go the route of walking on but at least you have a chance of working towards a scholarship while being on the team.

Best of luck but please realize the odds are against you but if you don't try then there is absolutely no chance.

A couple of questions:

01---how much HS varsity baseball experience have you had?

02--Why did the light go on just now and not last year?

Grade 12 age 17

I would've had Varsity experience last yr if I wouldn't've been injured... So none right now. But I would be a good pitcher for varsity.. My coach last yr told me that... And he took a two high schools to state in his first year at the two schools...

It came on last year.. I was trying to get ahold of this one coach with no response so I kinda gave up...(stupid on my part.)


thanks oldslugger8 I filled out the UO one.


Thanks
Greg

If talking to a college baseball coach how would you sell yourself? He won't be interested in the "could have's" and "would have's." What do you offer the program?

Can you give us a ballpark of how hard you throw?

Honestly I am going to give you a gut feeling advice but I feel pretty confident in it. Don't bother with DI right now. You have to have a certain level of talent to be there and maybe you have it but it's a huge chance to take.

I say pick something smaller and work your way up after you put some numbers up this spring for your HS.

I offer a hard working player... Someone who can come in the game and get the job done.


My guess is around 75 my friend pitches mid 80s and my fastball is a tad slower than his

Are you a student at Grants Pass High? If so, new coach Brian Diatte should be able to tell you how you would fit into a college program.

You probably already know this, but he played at a top California JC and then at a NAIA school. He was the head coach at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale when Troy Tulowitzski was there. He's seen a whole spectrum of ball players.

Once you have his opinion, then you can target appropriate schools. Realistically, you're going to need this spring's games to build a resume.

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Originally posted by Greg516:
I offer a hard working player... Someone who can come in the game and get the job done.


My guess is around 75 my friend pitches mid 80s and my fastball is a tad slower than his

Every player being recruited works hard, has talent and gets the job done in high school. I'll ask again, what do you offer? What's on your current resume? If you're throwing under 80 you should look at mid level D3 programs.

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Originally posted by 3FingeredGlove:
Are you a student at Grants Pass High? If so, new coach Brian Diatte should be able to tell you how you would fit into a college program.

You probably already know this, but he played at a top California JC and then at a NAIA school. He was the head coach at Fremont High School in Sunnyvale when Troy Tulowitzski was there. He's seen a whole spectrum of ball players.

Once you have his opinion, then you can target appropriate schools. Realistically, you're going to need this spring's games to build a resume.

That was my coach last year. He said I was an alright pitcher that could easily make it on varsity.

I've been looking at a cpl different NAIA schools.. 1 or 2 D3 and a D1 back where I use to live. And I got a response back from the D1 school.

So use Coach Diatte as a resouce. Ask him if an "alright pitcher that could easily make it on varsity" translates to "college material". If the answer is yes, (but only if it is yes) ask him to help in contacting coaches.

Do realize that he can only recommend you to a college if he has seen you enough to be confident in your ability. Given your injury, he may not have seen you enough to know for sure.