[baseball_dad]

Stats do not mean as much to college coaches as arm strength (pop-times, mph on a JUGS) and speed (60 times). If a player can run a 6.4/60 they are going to teach you how to hit, and you will be able to run down fly balls in the outfield. If a pitcher is throwing in the mid-90s a good pitching coach will teach the player good mechanics and get him something off speed to go with it. If a catcher has a 1.9 pop-time, they will teach him to block and frame - and if he only hits .250 they can probably live with that.

A college coach is not going to increase a pitchers fastball from 80 to 95, or make a 7.0/60 kid run a 6.4 - it just doesn't happen. You can't teach God-given skills. You either got-it or you don't. I don't even think that stats rate above a players attitude at the ball park. If a player hustles everywhere he goes once he is on the field, doesn't talk smack, doesn't let one mistake effect the rest of his game (striking out, making an error, etc.), and it appears that they love to play the game. To me, that shows that the player can be coached and they want to be there.

College coaches do not want a head case, or an average player that is a big fish in a small pond that might be difficult to coach. So, if you aren't throwing 90+, running a 6.5/60, or popping a 1.9 consistently - you had better do the little things to impress.

Exactly. That is what I have been trying to say.