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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Many people are frustrated with how the SJC coach runs the team.  Word is that he will finally leave in two years when his youngest kid (daughter) graduates from SJC.

He basically only plays the starters and/or his favorites, even if they are beating an opponent by 15 runs.

What's nuts is that he had a junior lefty pitcher committed to play at Tennessee...and he only gave that kid like 5 innings all season because he loved his 2025 star pitchers (three in particular who are also D1...but TN is usually a top 5 college team).

SJC lost a number of rising juniors who will likely be starters at their new schools because of how he runs the team.[/quote]

The SJC coach very explicitly lays out his rules to incoming players and parents. They know that playing time is not guaranteed, and that if they want to be on the team, the players must take part in the coach’s camps. There is no gray area, and the players know exactly where they stand. A lot of parents simply cannot handle the fact that their kid simply isn’t the next Paul Skenes.

We know parents who sent their kid elsewhere for this school year because he wasn’t playing much, but the real reason is that the parents kept sending their kid to these camps where he was encouraged to put excessive wear on his arm. He kept getting hurt and the coach wouldn’t play him, so he’s with a much lesser high school program this year.[/quote]

There is a difference between getting playing time and never substituting when the outcome of the game is 100% gauranteed now matter who you put on the field (ie, beating the Heights by 10 runs and leaving your top pitcher in the game).

No other program literally anywhere takes this approach, including the IMG team that substituted their players when they were up by over 10 runs against SJC. [/quote]

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