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He ended up last year leading his team in every hitting stat but two. One kid had two homers, John only 1. That same kid had 5 triples, John had 4. Otherwise got, Batting Avg., RBIs, Hits, 2Bs, Slugging, OBP, and OPS.
He goes down there to Jupiter gets our only hit in a 1-0 loss off a GA kid who hit 96 that game. Stroked it too. Blasted a bomb the night before, Swingbuilder was actually watching most of the game with me. Not a shred of interest out there. Of course he's not looking to go outside of the state.
Recruiting is so weird, one kid from our team who was also on Chet Lemon's Juice, committed to Stetson a top D1 team. Now I am happy for the kid, but it's a head scratcher. He wasn't within .150 pts of John who was .408 last year. Much lower power/singles numbers and nowhere near as fast running wise at 5'11". John is 6'5" more consistency, more power, and....Silence.... There is a lot to it, he was on Chet Lemon's Juice a half season sooner and probably camped at the school. Rollins likes him a lot so something might happen there, but he's really not too concerned. Either someone offers or doesn't, he's academically accepted to Miami, UCF and maybe Fla. so he might just skip on the whole baseball thing. He's worked way too hard at academics so he won't be the one to play at a JUCO just to get on the field somewhere.
Honestly I was pretty much disenchanted watching John in the Fall. Not him specifically but we played a lot of double-headers against Junior Colleges. I'd see the guys they were running out at 1B who couldn't even hit John. Chubby, slow, and I am thinking, wait a minute. You coaches couldn't even bother to write back when Steven was a Sr. because you'd locked up a very non-athletic kid who "appears" to be a power hitter due to thigh size. Ahhh, one school had a hitter I really liked (Seminole) but some of the others we played, it was just depressing. So I said man..... Nothing will be more fun than having a great senior year with these kids you've been playing with since 8th grade. Don't worry about college ball, if it happens it happens if it doesn't you'll be fine. I opted out of college sports and regret it once in a great while but I am also sitting here in a cushy high paying job that let's me follow my kids around.
Main thing I wanted to was, since it doesn't seem to bother him, is really look forward to this Sr. Season. Hopefully he doesn't get nicked up or injured. Got hit in the face and broke his nose in the fall running to 1B on a throw from SS where the 1B tried to keep a foot on the bag to reach on a throw that was wide in the inside side (he needed to step off to catch it). Instant blood gushing like crazy. Sneaky but freak accidents like that can cost you a few games. Or something like Getting hit-by-pitch on the fingers etc.
He ended up last year leading his team in every hitting stat but two. One kid had two homers, John only 1. That same kid had 5 triples, John had 4. Otherwise got, Batting Avg., RBIs, Hits, 2Bs, Slugging, OBP, and OPS.
He goes down there to Jupiter gets our only hit in a 1-0 loss off a GA kid who hit 96 that game. Stroked it too. Blasted a bomb the night before, Swingbuilder was actually watching most of the game with me. Not a shred of interest out there. Of course he's not looking to go outside of the state.
Recruiting is so weird, one kid from our team who was also on Chet Lemon's Juice, committed to Stetson a top D1 team. Now I am happy for the kid, but it's a head scratcher. He wasn't within .150 pts of John who was .408 last year. Much lower power/singles numbers and nowhere near as fast running wise at 5'11". John is 6'5" more consistency, more power, and....Silence.... There is a lot to it, he was on Chet Lemon's Juice a half season sooner and probably camped at the school. Rollins likes him a lot so something might happen there, but he's really not too concerned. Either someone offers or doesn't, he's academically accepted to Miami, UCF and maybe Fla. so he might just skip on the whole baseball thing. He's worked way too hard at academics so he won't be the one to play at a JUCO just to get on the field somewhere.
Honestly I was pretty much disenchanted watching John in the Fall. Not him specifically but we played a lot of double-headers against Junior Colleges. I'd see the guys they were running out at 1B who couldn't even hit John. Chubby, slow, and I am thinking, wait a minute. You coaches couldn't even bother to write back when Steven was a Sr. because you'd locked up a very non-athletic kid who "appears" to be a power hitter due to thigh size. Ahhh, one school had a hitter I really liked (Seminole) but some of the others we played, it was just depressing. So I said man..... Nothing will be more fun than having a great senior year with these kids you've been playing with since 8th grade. Don't worry about college ball, if it happens it happens if it doesn't you'll be fine. I opted out of college sports and regret it once in a great while but I am also sitting here in a cushy high paying job that let's me follow my kids around.
Main thing I wanted to was, since it doesn't seem to bother him, is really look forward to this Sr. Season. Hopefully he doesn't get nicked up or injured. Got hit in the face and broke his nose in the fall running to 1B on a throw from SS where the 1B tried to keep a foot on the bag to reach on a throw that was wide in the inside side (he needed to step off to catch it). Instant blood gushing like crazy. Sneaky but freak accidents like that can cost you a few games. Or something like Getting hit-by-pitch on the fingers etc.
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