Up next in Alexandria is great! It’s far from you and sometimes there are several kids at a time working with several coaches. Lots of regulars. So make sure to drop your kid off and tell them (“Hughes” is in charge but any coach is helpful) exactly what you need. If your son just needs a confidence boost, they will hype him up. Sometimes I just book a lesson to help my son remember he loves baseball. They’re very talented coaches, they give individualized instruction based on what you need and they have personality. Some baseball places have coaches that are complete duds, these guys are the perfect combo of serious instruction and fun. They also don’t coach their own teams so they don’t have weird favorites.

Anonymous wrote:What's a good place for a 8th grader to do individual hitting and feilding training/lessons to get ready for high school try outs? Not looking for college recruitment or MLB here, but my kid is a good baseball player who would like to make his high school team. Looking for a training facility that will help him to improve, but not looking for baseball to take over our lives (he plays other sports). We were thinking of Prime Time, but this post has put me off that. Is there a good place (preferably near Bethesda or Chevy Chase) that can do solid training and not be otherwise awful?

I don't have a suggestion in BCC area, but just a word of warning. All the instructors will try to change your kid's swing. If you are OK with that, that's fine but this close to tryouts I'd be concerned, especially if your son is already a good hitter. My son did lessons at Ignite and they try to change every kid's swing the same way, basically emphasizing power. That's great for some kids, but if your kid is more of a contact hitter, it can really mess with them. I know several kids who all got the same "corrections". We did lessons all last winter and my kid went from being a good hitter to one with a high strikeout rate because he was always trying to drive the ball.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is anyone suffering through this awful organization.

It’s not like Primetime can point to their roster of D1 and MLB alumni.

It’s a mediocre local program.

Because the owners are local high school coaches and kids who want to play on that high school team need to pay to play.

I assume that you can avoid it at 9 years old (which is the age mentioned several posts up). At the least, punt the decision for 4-5 years.

I still don’t get it at least with OConnell where their best HS players don’t play Primetime (but maybe pay for private training?).

This may change now that the new O'Connell coach is from PrimeTime.

PrimeTime likes to talk about all their college commits every year, and they do have quite a few. All from the A team, but more than half commit to random schools I have to look up because I've never heard of them. I told my son it's better to go to a college you really want to attend and play club baseball than go to a no-name D3 just so you can play baseball.

This times one million. I know a family that gave their kid a gap year and intense instruction so he could be red shirted at a B- D3 school in PA. They seriously based this kid's future on playing baseball for a complete nobody

I honestly felt bad when I realized they could read my expression on my face. Talk about setting your kid up for failing.

You should feel bad. That was incredibly rude.

Nah. I'm not here to protect anyone from making stupid decisions.

What's a good place for a 8th grader to do individual hitting and feilding training/lessons to get ready for high school try outs? Not looking for college recruitment or MLB here, but my kid is a good baseball player who would like to make his high school team. Looking for a training facility that will help him to improve, but not looking for baseball to take over our lives (he plays other sports). We were thinking of Prime Time, but this post has put me off that. Is there a good place (preferably near Bethesda or Chevy Chase) that can do solid training and not be otherwise awful?

Anonymous wrote:Parents are so delusional. Baseball really seems like a mating ritual among closeted straight men. In daddy ball it’s all about my buddy’s kid and padding your team with all your boys and your buddy’s and their kids. All Star is just some dude and his buddy’s kids. Any dad who touched a ball post high school is literally worshipped among team dads. We had a primetime coach who was so enamored with one of the dads because he played college ball that he would take out kids who were pitching well mid-inning when his dad crush arrived at the games so he could see his son pitch. I wish there were more women baseball coaches.

LOL this is all so true. The dad dynamics with baseball are so incredibly “extra”. It seems to become almost a weird “dad hobby” or dad social club. More so than other sports. It is super weird.

#DCGB

Parents are so delusional. Baseball really seems like a mating ritual among closeted straight men. In daddy ball it’s all about my buddy’s kid and padding your team with all your boys and your buddy’s and their kids. All Star is just some dude and his buddy’s kids. Any dad who touched a ball post high school is literally worshipped among team dads. We had a primetime coach who was so enamored with one of the dads because he played college ball that he would take out kids who were pitching well mid-inning when his dad crush arrived at the games so he could see his son pitch. I wish there were more women baseball coaches.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is anyone suffering through this awful organization.

It’s not like Primetime can point to their roster of D1 and MLB alumni.

It’s a mediocre local program.

Because the owners are local high school coaches and kids who want to play on that high school team need to pay to play.

I assume that you can avoid it at 9 years old (which is the age mentioned several posts up). At the least, punt the decision for 4-5 years.

I still don’t get it at least with OConnell where their best HS players don’t play Primetime (but maybe pay for private training?).

This may change now that the new O'Connell coach is from PrimeTime.

PrimeTime likes to talk about all their college commits every year, and they do have quite a few. All from the A team, but more than half commit to random schools I have to look up because I've never heard of them. I told my son it's better to go to a college you really want to attend and play club baseball than go to a no-name D3 just so you can play baseball.

This times one million. I know a family that gave their kid a gap year and intense instruction so he could be red shirted at a B- D3 school in PA. They seriously based this kid's future on playing baseball for a complete nobody

I honestly felt bad when I realized they could read my expression on my face. Talk about setting your kid up for failing.

You should feel bad. That was incredibly rude.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is anyone suffering through this awful organization.

It’s not like Primetime can point to their roster of D1 and MLB alumni.

It’s a mediocre local program.

Because the owners are local high school coaches and kids who want to play on that high school team need to pay to play.

I assume that you can avoid it at 9 years old (which is the age mentioned several posts up). At the least, punt the decision for 4-5 years.

I still don’t get it at least with OConnell where their best HS players don’t play Primetime (but maybe pay for private training?).

This may change now that the new O'Connell coach is from PrimeTime.

PrimeTime likes to talk about all their college commits every year, and they do have quite a few. All from the A team, but more than half commit to random schools I have to look up because I've never heard of them. I told my son it's better to go to a college you really want to attend and play club baseball than go to a no-name D3 just so you can play baseball.

+1

It's the "broken arm" test. If you broke your arm, and missed the entire season, would you still want to go to that school.

This is what 99.9% of college athletes should be asking themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is anyone suffering through this awful organization.

It’s not like Primetime can point to their roster of D1 and MLB alumni.

It’s a mediocre local program.

Because the owners are local high school coaches and kids who want to play on that high school team need to pay to play.

I assume that you can avoid it at 9 years old (which is the age mentioned several posts up). At the least, punt the decision for 4-5 years.

I still don’t get it at least with OConnell where their best HS players don’t play Primetime (but maybe pay for private training?).

This may change now that the new O'Connell coach is from PrimeTime.

PrimeTime likes to talk about all their college commits every year, and they do have quite a few. All from the A team, but more than half commit to random schools I have to look up because I've never heard of them. I told my son it's better to go to a college you really want to attend and play club baseball than go to a no-name D3 just so you can play baseball.

This times one million. I know a family that gave their kid a gap year and intense instruction so he could be red shirted at a B- D3 school in PA. They seriously based this kid's future on playing baseball for a complete nobody

I honestly felt bad when I realized they could read my expression on my face. Talk about setting your kid up for failing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is anyone suffering through this awful organization.

It’s not like Primetime can point to their roster of D1 and MLB alumni.

It’s a mediocre local program.

Because the owners are local high school coaches and kids who want to play on that high school team need to pay to play.

I assume that you can avoid it at 9 years old (which is the age mentioned several posts up). At the least, punt the decision for 4-5 years.

I still don’t get it at least with OConnell where their best HS players don’t play Primetime (but maybe pay for private training?).

This may change now that the new O'Connell coach is from PrimeTime.

PrimeTime likes to talk about all their college commits every year, and they do have quite a few. All from the A team, but more than half commit to random schools I have to look up because I've never heard of them. I told my son it's better to go to a college you really want to attend and play club baseball than go to a no-name D3 just so you can play baseball.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is anyone suffering through this awful organization.

It’s not like Primetime can point to their roster of D1 and MLB alumni.

It’s a mediocre local program.

Because the owners are local high school coaches and kids who want to play on that high school team need to pay to play.

I assume that you can avoid it at 9 years old (which is the age mentioned several posts up). At the least, punt the decision for 4-5 years.

I still don’t get it at least with OConnell where their best HS players don’t play Primetime (but maybe pay for private training?).

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Anonymous wrote:So my son is starting on a new hybrid team at Primetime. We’ve had a few winter practices and it seems like the parents take it very seriously but there isn’t much talent. We just noticed this thread. Should we leave before he gets too attached? He’s not very good and we don’t pay for extra private lessons.

What age group is this? I’m sorry to tell you, but if you don’t pay for private lessons, he’s not going to get much playing time.

From what I've heard from friends who have kids who play there, this is true.

Anonymous wrote:Why is anyone suffering through this awful organization.

It’s not like Primetime can point to their roster of D1 and MLB alumni.

It’s a mediocre local program.

Because the owners are local high school coaches and kids who want to play on that high school team need to pay to play.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of these private coaches are terrible too. They sell you a bill of goods like Pitchers Edge so you keep paying for their overpriced lessons when they know you are not going to get recruited. It's all for $$$.

Anyone have insight/thoughts on Advanced Baseball?

AB is the real deal, very different than the others mentioned here. Very small, individualized training based in academic research. Look up OnBaseU, that’s them--Steve Johnson is one of the founders of OnBase, was Tom House’s partner for decades, and was the founder of AB. They literally teach others how to train athletes.

You won’t find better pitching training in the mid-Atlantic, if not anyplace outside of San Diego.

It’s a hidden gem, tucked in a nondescript building along with building trades and mini-storage.

Nice ad.