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It's a funny thing when someone or some organization you used to work alongside claims your work as their own. Flattering and frustrating at the same time. Sometimes you have to just laugh at people.
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‘28 Riley Salvemini (CA)
FB: 89-93 (2500+)
SL: 81-84 (2600+)
CH: 83–86 (KS)
6’3” 190 with athletic, uptempo delivery. Feel for 3 including bullet slider & moved FB in and out. Starter upside. Quick arm. N2K
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#PBFG26 || @PrepBaseballCA
So a dude who makes his living off of hyperbole on twitter is mad at the clouds because a social media intern at USA Baseball used hyperbole on twitter??!
Whatever man. It was a fun week of baseball. And now we move on to the next thing.
Team of destiny? Cmon, they won a HS summer baseball tournament not the #WorldSeries after being down 3 games to none.
One of the more fun weeks of baseball in 29 years of coaching. An epic comeback in extras in the semis; a world class performance in the Gold Medal game but more than that…
TEAM OF DESTINY 🥇
Alpha Prime 2028 capped off their undefeated run at 16U Champs NC with a 10-2 run-rule victory!
#ChampsNC26
This group bought into to the way we thought it should work- played for each other, and kept throwing punches when we needed it.
Well said. A confession: As the world has gotten more and more transactional it does sometimes feel harder to not give in to cynicism and to avoid getting sucked into a win or you fail mindset. I’m guilty of it too.
Want your players to actually develop this summer?
Stop shielding them from failure in games.
The two biggest keys? Working through failure + massive repetition.
I’ve won some of the biggest tournaments on the circuit as a coach and org owner… and nobody remembers (or cares).
There’s a delicate balance between learning to win and sacrificing development. Our system rewards winning way too early.
Kids need room to get jammed while learning to let the ball travel. To make bad throws figuring out footwork. To chase pitches expanding the zone. To miss badly testing a new pitch shape.
Real growth happens by failing, learning, adjusting, and stacking days.
Learning to win matters — but developing players who know how to react and learn from failure is more important.
What if we looked at this whole college/draft system different? Just for sake of argument, throw it all out. It doesn't matter what exists now. Start fresh.
What would be the best realistic system for college sports, its players, its member schools, and the country as a whole?
I think it's likely SOMETHING will pass. But what happens next?
If in practice it restricts athletes $$, wouldn't that lead to a strike/union/CBA negotiation?
All roads lead to "athletes are employees; rules must be collectively bargained"- even those that mean the opposite.
This is fair but incomplete. It's not a battle between "players should be paid" and "players should F off".
Yes, NCAA is big business. Players deserve their rightful share. But it's also fair to note that something huge has been lost as we've professionalized amateur sports.
Don’t you dare take an opportunity to better your personal situation while doing something you love!!!
Said NO ONE EVER!
Broken record during Portal Season about how it has ruined the game.
The portal is the free market, if you don’t like it, be better. Adapt or die.
Coaches changing jobs..it’s the free market…let it rip.
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Have your athlete write, in their own words, why they want to compete in college. Not the answer a coach wants, the real one. If it is "because everyone expects me to," it is better to know now, at the kitchen table, than in a dorm room in October.
This matches what I have witnessed.
May is over. Here is what the next thirty days actually look like inside college baseball, since most parents do not see it.
June 1 opens the main transfer portal window. Within seventy-two hours, hundreds of college players enter. Some are walking away. Most have been pushed.
Coaches who lose players to the portal are on the phone within hours, sometimes minutes, reshaping their rosters. That reshaping cascades downward — Power 4 takes from mid-major, mid-major takes from D2 and NAIA, D2 and NAIA take from junior college, and junior college reaches into the high school class.
A 2026 who thought his commitment was settled in March can find his depth chart completely different by July 4.
If your son is committed, this is the month to have an honest check-in with his future coach. Not a panicked one. A direct one. "What does the roster look like for me right now?" is a fair question. Coaches who answer it honestly are the coaches you want.
The June portal does not slow down for anyone. The families who watch it carefully are the ones who avoid the August surprise.
Every player is different but this is generically bad advice.
What % of big leaguers "pitched minimally" in HS vs the threw really hard and pitched/won a lot.
Pitching is a skill. Optimizing to minimize injury risk when that's so hard to quantify is not a great plan IMO.
“If you throw 95mph in high school, the best thing you can do for your career is stop pitching.” -Nick Sanzeri (HC of Menlo Park Legends collegiate team) @SanzeriBaseball @MPLegends
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Tommy Troy finding out that he has been called up to the major leagues
#DBacks
All roads in college sports lead to a collective bargaining agreement between athletes and colleges.
Even if the most NCAA friendly version of the SCORE act had passed, the ripple effect would have been player unionization, a strike or threat to strike, and ultimately a CBA.