The Baseball Season
So I have not talked much about my son’s baseball season. This year really has taught me a lot about being a parent of an athlete and learning to bite your tongue and staying positive and focusing on the important aspects of training.
So you can surmise by what I wrote above that I am not truly thrilled with everything that happened this year, but that is okay. Because the end result was better than I expected.
So let me get you up to date. My son is 13 years old and in seventh grade. His passion is baseball. Always has been. Everything about it. He tells me about new BBCore bats that are out and some prospect in the Rangers farm system who will be good and situations in baseball. That is his life, but for most of his life, he was smaller than the other kids. Now, he was always good. I am not saying this as a parent. I have learned that all parents think their kids are the best and should commit to LSU and UGA when they are six years old. That is not me. So because of his size, would be passed on.
So after the pandemic, my son grew. A lot. He grew over a food and put on 85 pounds. Not 85 pounds like me. I am talking about 85 pounds of muscle. So at 13, he is five foot six (I think he is taller now) and 175 pounds. But not an ounce of fat on him.
He goes to a 6-12 school and he is on the varsity team. There is one seventh grader. That is my son. Everyone else is in high school. There are 18 kids on the team. 18.
The kids on the team are awesome. They are truly good to my son. He does not play much. Do I think he is good enough to start? Yes. Do I think upperclassmen should start over a seventh grader? Yes. Is it hard to see someone starting and playing that I think my son might be better than? Yes. Do I think a coach has every right to make their decisions and it should be respected? Yes.
So with all that being said, my son has not played much. When he has, he has made the most of it. I told him that he doesn’t need to worry about playing as much as training. Practices are vital. Training with his trainer on the weekends is important. So that is what we are working on.
And he has gotten better. He rarely will strike out. He hits the ball with power. I bought this radar gun to test his exit velocity. It was in the mid 80’s. He is 13 years old. That is crazy.
But this season has also hurt his confidence a little. I can assure him all day long he is ahead of where he needs to be. His trainer tells him the same.
So there are two weeks left. Then we are training this summer pretty hard for next season. He is really excited about that.
So I really did not talk much about this season because there was not a ton to talk about. But I am pretty confident next year he will start showing exactly who he is in baseball.
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