This clip Is. classic!!! He’ll show his grandkids about how he hip ropes when he played competitive baseball!! I like your attitude young man, COACH... let him keep swinging that bat
coaches don’t recruit they have people who do that for them lol do you actually think head coaches go to high school baseball games a year and watch players? not to mention that they recruited him as a pitcher so they obviously wouldn’t care about his batting average
I was recruited for pitching, and the coach who recruited me thought I played short. It was the middle of freshman year, about to start the season, when he asks what I played in high school and I said right field. The surprise on his face. He has thought for a whole year and a half that I played short in highschool lol
I see this all the time honestly. Hitters practice hitting everyday and then some pitcher who hasn’t swung in 5 years comes up and out hits the dudes who be practicing every day. I see this so often that there is definitely something to it
“so often” lol how exactly would you see this often? guys who literally never get up to bat “often” come out and hit bombs? does that actually make sense to you? guys who never get to the plate never rarely bat. that’s literally the point it’s definitely not something that you see often. big 🧢
@@mikejones2405 I played a pretty extensive career, I saw this at least once a year among the 70-100 games a year I played. For how hard it is to hit a baseball, this RELATIVELY happens a lot. Sorry I didn’t phrase this up to your ideal depiction
@@underthetrees4780 no doubt, if you can push yourself off a mound with enough enough force to throw 90mph+…odds are you can generate enough power to rope a ball.. probably is much slower when you’re more worried about throwing strikes rather than hitting them in order to stay in the lineup/keep a job. No expectations makes the game so much easier.
I'd wager it's pitchers knowing best basically what to expect from a pitcher, combined with college ball not yet creating the skill gap that makes it virtually impossible to be good enough at both to do both pro (there's only so many hours to practice in a day!)
In high school I used to get to pitch and hit 3rd but the coach would always pinch run me senior year... summer league junior year I had over 20 steals.. a lot of high school coaches wont just let us play
No most were really good in high school but weren’t quite good enough for hitting in college then when they don’t work at hitting in college they are even worse in the mlb
@@reaganmummau6505 Yea well that what I mean. They just don't get any practice throughout college and if they get to the Majors and pitch in the National league it just doesn't go well.
In high school my coach use to swear to me that if I didn’t stop swinging at first pitch fastballs to start the game he was gone move me to the 2 hole starting my junior year I went deep in back to back first pitches to start games and he never brought that up again even tho I did try to listen more and leave first pitch change ups alone lol😂
Sports is the only time it’s acceptable to lie/stretch the truth. One time out catcher went out in high school during the game and I rode the bench. The coach asked if anyone had caught before. I did…7 years earlier! Yeah that was not a good game 😂
LSU went from this to we can’t play a game in a 6 hour window cause we got one pitcher and he can’t throw in the sun on Saturdays. Todd walked so Jay Johnson could sit in his own poo
@@michaelstein7510 imagine having the top 2 players in college and still whining about weather so your star doesn’t have to pitch in the sun. Sit around for 6 hrs of sunny weather then Paula pitches at night. It’s like if Kirby Smart got to pick when the dawgs played Bama lol
Where is it written that pitchers have to completely ignore hitting and by default have to be really bad hitters? I mean, when is it OK to just completely ignore 50% of the sport you play?
Since the junior league decided to implement the DH. A wise man once said, "i believe there should be a conditional amendment against astroturf and the designated hitter."