HS baseball players: 🛑 Stop 🛑 announcing offers. Thanks.
Sincerely,
Everyone (especially the school that offered you)
John Nester
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John Nester
@JohnNester17
@_17co_ | @USAPrime_SC | @USAPrimeNat | Clemson Grad | Former A’s, Padres MiLB Player and Padres Catching Coordinator | Romans 5:3-4
Joined January 2011
- Hitting instructors: please stop telling your hitters that BP off #HackAttack is bad for their swing. It’s not all about feel good front toss! How silly do you sound saying, “My 25MPH underhand flip is all you need to hit 85+ w/ movement and off-speed.”
- We just paid $1800 for my team to play 4 games.. sort of. G 1 - 11-0 W (4.5 inn MERCY RULE) G 2 - 4-1 L (5.5 inn TIME LIMIT) G 3 - 3-3 T (3.5 inn RAIN) G 4 - 12-0 W (3.5 inn OTHER TEAM QUIT) 17 innings total.. the ⚾️ industry needs help.
- I don’t understand players who show up to baseball games/tournaments and play like they don’t want to be there. Why even show up? Do everyone a favor and stay home if you aren’t going to compete!
- “Stay to play” should be illegal. Trying to charge EACH TEAM in an org $750-$900 for a HOTEL BUYOUT is insanity. Pay $3,000+ for a tourney, just to receive an email that we wont get games unless I force parents to book their hotels too. Change IS coming and we will begin
- Today on “What’s wrong with travel ball?” $600 “stay to play” buyouts and payment deadlines 5 months in advance for 13u ⚾️ tournaments.
- Too many HS baseball players are under the assumption that if they play summer ball, they’re going to college. Instead, try working your tail off and earn it. You have to skip things you want now for the “dreams” you want later.
- Travel-ball has become the Wild West. It’s become nearly impossible for parents/players to get credible information from people they can trust. We have an industry where grown men constantly LIE about who they are, what they’ve done, and what they can do for you/your son.
- Want to play college/pro ball? You don’t need to go to more camps. You don’t need to play more games. You don’t need to post more to social media. You NEED play like you LOVE the game! Play hard. Be tough. Be gritty. Be selfless. College coaches are tired of “showcase players”.
- Everyone and their momma thinks they can run a baseball facility. To the group that came in yesterday and huddled up away from me and my staff to discuss which things to copy and how you can compete... don’t worry. You can’t. 😊
- I spend so much time coaching ⚾️players who aspire to play at the next level... I rarely come across kids who show up to games to whoop some a$$. Those that do are the ones being recruited. Remember: In the age of “showcase”, scouts are still looking for winners.
- No thanks. I’ll never say any coach is just wrong because every athlete will connect the dots differently. But when it’s taught as the secret/the only way... it’s best to stay away.
00:00 - Replying to @dom_lucre
- Kids are being “re-classed” and playing their junior year as old as 18. At the end of my junior year of HS, I was still 16.. I can’t imagine playing travel ball against kids 2 years younger than me. Where do we draw the line? It’s kinda like men competing against women to win