PBR Baseball Showcase: Your Pathway to Collegiate Exposure

Three baseball players, seen from behind, walk together. These athletes, important to college baseball coaches, wear different jerseys: the left in red, the middle in blue, and the right in black with the number 30 on the back.

ShareTweetFlipEmailPin0 SharesPBR Baseball showcases are critical events for young athletes aspiring to play at collegiate levels or to attract the attention of professional scouts. The Prep Baseball Report (PBR) showcases provide these opportunities by organizing events across the United States and Canada. At these gatherings, you have the chance to demonstrate your skills, receive expert … Read more

4 Things You Should Know Before You Contact College Coaches

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dog wondering if he should contact college coachesNobody likes wasting their time and college coaches are no exception. So when you start to contact college coaches, be sure that you are prepared. If nothing else, what sort of impression do you think you make when the coach has to inform you of basic facts regarding the school or finds out that you aren’t qualified to play on his team?

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5 Ways to Get Smart About College Baseball Recruiting

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player sliding into base representing ways to get smart about college baseball recruitingAs you start the college baseball recruiting process, you need to know what you don’t know. And sometimes it feels like you would rather not know than try to make sense of all of the information out there. Not only is there so much information out there, so much seems contradictory. Since the recruiting process will be different for each family, you can’t necessarily make your plans based on what happened to someone else. Sometimes you just need a baseline to start with so that you can make sense of the rest of the information. So before drowning in Google search results, try these resources first.

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9 Simple Ways to Improve Your Chances of Playing College Baseball-Part 2

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keeping score book representing one way to improve chances of playing college baseballI’ve already listed four of the nine things that you can do that will improve your chances of playing baseball at the college level in a previous post. These tips aren’t going to make a D2 player into a D1 player. They will give the D2 player a better chance at actually playing college baseball on a D2 team. These are the things you can do off the field that will set you apart from other players. It isn’t just about having the best skills; it’s about making it as easy as possible for coaches to know that you have the skills and choose you over another player.

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9 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Playing College Baseball-Part 1

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Baseball pitcher practicing to improve chances of playing college baseballHere are nine things that you can do that will improve your chances of playing college baseball. These aren’t about improving specific baseball skills, although that may happen. It’s about giving you the edge over another player who has the exact same stats and ability ratings as you do. In other words, these suggestions aren’t going to make a D2 player into a D1 player. It is about making it as easy as possible for a college coach to recruit you from the hundreds of other players that he has to choose from.

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How to Get Recruited to Play College Baseball

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player sliding into base representing how to get recruited to play college baseballSo your first question is what would a homeschool mom know about how to get recruited to play college baseball? Simple, it’s like everything else in homeschooling–once our son decided that he wanted to play baseball in college we realized that we would have to figure out the process ourselves. A lot of what we learned can be applied to anyone trying to play college sports but the specifics here will be on baseball.

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What High School Baseball Players Need to Worry About to be Recruited by Colleges

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high school baseball player not worrying about how to get recruited to play college baseballIt seems that weekly, if not daily, you’ll come across another story about how today’s generation has been coddled with self-esteem trophies since their first little league game and have been told that their clay pots are special no matter how lumpy and cracked. This has an especially insidious strain in high school sports that can undermine a player’s chances to get recruited to play college baseball.

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9 Steps to Figure Out Your Chances of Getting a College Athletic Scholarship

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girl with equation to calculate chances of getting a college athletic scholarshipIt would be nice if there was a formula somewhere that high school players could use to calculate their odds of getting an athletic scholarship. All they would have to do is to enter their stats, maybe their high school or club teams, and the formula would tell them their chances and even indicate how much of a scholarship to expect! Wouldn’t that be nice?

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Reality Check Part 2: What to do to Play College Baseball

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baseball on field representing actions required to play college baseball Hopefully, the previous post demonstrated that the chances of getting a scholarship to play college baseball aren’t very good. Sometimes I think parents talk about the baseball scholarship as a way to justify the amount of time and money their family is spending on baseball. Claiming that it’s all to pay for college is an easy and obvious excuse.

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