When to start?

NJ,
First of all, congratulations on making honor roll. If your experience will be like my son's and many of his colleagues that I have worked with the first question a college coach will ask you is "how are your grades?" (By the way, the answer to this is not "good" or "okay." The answer is "my GPA is 3.5 (or whatever it is) in the most rigorous courses in my school.") Let the coach determine how good your grades are as they relate to the admission criteria of his school. Just give him the objective facts--GPA and the academic curriculum you are undertaking.

Class of 2015 makes you a rising sophomore. I would wait until at least a year before you contact a coach. Let your sophomore year play out. If you have a killer year on varsity then you will have something to share with him. Fill out the online questionaire at the colleges you are interested in, then follow up with an introductory e-mail or phone call.

If you played JV your sophomore year then I would wait until your junior year before you contact a college coach. You should also prepare a video near the end of your junior year that you can send to coaches.

It's tempting to want to start contacting coaches very early, but really only the blue chip recruits are having meaningful dialogue with coaches before the summer preceding the senior year. Most players start the significant interactions in the fall of the senior year, some even after that.

In the meantime, keep your grades up, keep working on your game and your conditioning, and start visiting college websites--both on the academic side and the baseball side. Good luck!

NJ-

It really depends on what level of a recruit you are. Like Roderick said, the only players that are really committing as sophomores are the top 100 type players to the "bigger" programs. If you have one tool (run a 6.6 60, throw 87+, etc.) that makes you stand above the rest of the 2015's, it would definitely be a good idea to contact schools you are interested in and let them know your interests, what you can do, and a good reference contact to verify what you can do. Coaches really don't care about stats, but are more concerned with what your tool set it.

Outside of that, you need to spend the majority of your time this year keeping your grades up and working on developing as an athlete and a baseball player. Make sure you understand what the coaches are looking for, and then set your goals to match that type of player.

Hope this helps...

Check out the schools that interest you academically 1st, then check out their baseball programs. Perhaps join a recruiting website so that you can post both your academic and athletic accomplishments. You can also email prospective coaches and ask them to refer to your web profile as well. Good Luck!

I disagree, start as soon as possible. Even if it's just an email here or there. It lets you know you have interest in them. Also if you go to a camp, email every coach that is attending that you might have interest in. So if you have any interest what-so-ever in going there email them. Keep as many doors open as possible because you never know what can happen.