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[quote=Anonymous]D1 Baseball is going to DRAMATICALLY change.

It has been that you could be on a college baseball team for five years total and compete for 4 of those years. JUCO (junior college /community college) counted for two years. So students who went to JUCO and played from  typically 18-20 would then transfer and play in a D1 school from around 20-22/23. '

Due to a recent court case it looks like JUCO is  NOT going to affect D1 NCAA eligibility. So students can play for two years at a JUCO (18-20), redshirt for a year at a D1 (age 21) then play for four more years 22-26.  At the end of any of those years this player would be draft eligible!

So your 18 year old is going to be competing for roster spots with 20-21 year olds. Hmm, who do you think is getting the spot?

So you need to start asking how tall your kid is going to be at 18, are they going to have completely grown and filled out?

So if you think your kid is really going to go D1 and you aren't knowledgeable about baseball, odds are that isn't going to happen. There are too many dads and moms in the know. So many of the best players have dads still throwing them pitches.

Here is an article about Freddie Freedman from the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodgers/story/2023-08-21/dodgers-freddie-freeman-father-elite-swing

On most days of his childhood, Freddie Freeman and his dad, Fred, would drive to an open baseball field by their house in Orange County with a bucket of exactly 48 balls.

For about an hour, father would throw son batting practice. And pitch after pitch, bucket after bucket, day after day, and year after year, the swing of a future MLB superstar began to take form...The left-handed hitter never had a full-time hitting coach growing up...

Every time they went to the field, Fred would throw Freeman three buckets’ worth of balls. On the first bucket, Freeman would try hitting exclusively to left field. The second, he would attempt to line back up the middle. Only on the third bucket would Freeman go to all parts of the diamond, launching the 48 balls from foul line to foul line...

One day, when Freeman was still only 6, Fred noticed another baseball father he knew throwing batting practice to his two boys: Former Angels All-Star Bob Boone, with his future big league sons Bret (an eventual three-time All-Star) and Aaron (a one-time All-Star who is now the manager of the New York Yankees).

By that point, Freeman was already ahead of the curve as a player. The youngest of three baseball-playing brothers, he’d swung a bat practically since he could walk. He was also bigger than most of his peers, sprouting early into what is now a lanky 6-foot-5 frame.

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