He did winter track and worked legs...he's working toward a sub 6.8 before the end of winter workouts.Any udpates on your son's 60yd this year as a 17 year old? I would rather he scored well in home to first, or got a great jump on a pitcher than ran great a 60 anyway (he was top 10 at NTIS last year in the 60 and all they cared about was the radar gun regardless of position). Interesting information. If we were to use the information people send us it would be a mess. Student-athletes should be meeting the guidelines below by the summer before their senior year as many division two programs recruit student-athletes who may not have been picked up by division one programs after the early signing period. Very helpful. The best we have seen is 81 last year. Contact their program and go watch their off season workouts. We have heard hundreds of stories where someone's son touched 94 last week can you update his profile? Additionally, some Junior College players may have been drafted as seniors in high school but decided to go to college and would like to try to get drafted again at a higher level. It's cheaper and more fun for the boys. There are dozens of threads here about 60 times but does anyone know an average or typical 60 yard time for players by age or grade? Does anyone know what the average college time from home to first is? He was at 7.28 to start & with 6 weeks of 1X / week meeting with speed & conditioning coach & doing his "homework," he got to a 7.06. 7.83 was as a 14yr 8month (my mistake in the prior post)He's 6'1 and about 170...still has a lot of filling out to do, so I'm sure his time might get down a tad bit more before its all said and done.Good luck to you guys next week, hope he hit's it. I think the later bloomers have bigger jumps at the HS ages. session per athlete). You can get better coaching at those private lessons you spoke about and your kid might get more playing time on a less competitive team than he would on a team loaded with 6ft+ kids. He tops out at 85. About 175 players are selected from the NJCAA in the MLB Draft each year.As you can see, nothing is more important than excellent player development. Those stats get "stuck" on the players PG page and they won't go away until you replace them with another showcase.A local 2016 D1 recruit, whose parents apparently had money to burn, went to SIX showcases from 2012-2016. I would encourage you to have him not work with anything lighter than a drop 5, going from a drop 10 to a drop 3 has been really tough for many of the smaller kids.When you say the school has a poor program I assume you mean the coaching is not from a very experienced coach and the team is not very competitive. After my son grew from 5'11" 135 to 6' 160 I got him 60 time specific training.RJ, Exact same scenario for mine.
I've heard pop times are difficult at times to control as the catchers start "cheating". Take a look at this link and excerpt included below. Sorry about the link. To defend the 60, I would not want to be the guy running a true home to 1st drill. I've run across lots of D1 recruits that don't even have a PG profile, much less a bunch a great numbers posted. They waste their time and money and we lose all credibility.That said, we do love to hear about improvements players make. Meeting or exceeding the guidelines is not a guarantee that you will produce the desired results you seek. My kid goes to a very aggressive school with a strong sports program with a history of kids being recruited to play in college. After that he ran a 6.59 at HF.I doubt 0.4 improvement is the norm, but I've always thought a good sprint coach and an "untrained" athlete could drop at least 2 tenths.My 2017 son's experience was probably a bit of an anomaly but going into this past summer his best "official" 60 was 7.0. Repeatedly seen him make plays in CF unlike any other (really trying to be objective - his coach has said the same thing). He has been to other camps where recruiters have timed his game speed from home to first base and was told that was more important to colleges.I am not sure about the average improvement in the 60 each year but I know that you can expect to get faster as you mature in high school. Recruiting guidelines offer a good benchmark for student-athletes to compare themselves with athletes competing at the college level. He tops out at 85. Position players possess at least 4 of 5 measurable tools. He is always the smallest kid on his travel teams, but always the most athletic as well. We just can't report what we don't see.Regarding running times, velocity, pop times, and scouting reports.We have several MLB organizations that pay us for accurate information.We can't be very reliable if we report something we didn't actually see. Here's some data for you, based on current PG percentiles this year:2017: a 7.17 sixty is the 50th percentile for the class of 2017 this year2018: a 7.31 sixty is the 51st percentile for the class of 2018 this year2019: a 7.41 sixty is the 51st percentile for the class of 2019 this year2020: a 7.66 sixty is the 52nd percentile for the class of 2020 this year2021: a 7.85 sixty is the 50th percentile for the class of 2021 this yearBased on the above, the numbers from the blog seem fairly accurate.Thanks 2019Dad. Oh, and BTW. He is always the smallest kid on his travel teams, but always the most athletic as well. CF with a big bat....certainly didn't hurt himself in front of the scouts with that performanceDepending on body type this would be possible...2018 (june bday) went from a 7.83 (Feb 2015) as a 15yr old to a 6.96 (Aug 2016) as a 16yr old. Right now he is probably 4'11 and 80lbs! You get a feel for when they added velocity & how their physical growth tracked along with that. Probably will have to move to LF or RF in college. I think the 60 is not a baseball measurement anyway.
He has not been able to go to another PG showcase yet and is upset that his time is "stuck" at 7.2 with PG on the website when he ran a 6.6 this past January at another showcase. The run just seems to be so critical now for a position player & we do not think twice about paying for hitting or pitching instruction, but proper run mechanics & training can have a major positive impact here.
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