17Sports

This week we hosted the sixth annual MLK Day College Showcase in conjunction with 17Sports at Max Effort. It is something I truly look forward to as the kids and college coaches have a rare mutual day off where they can be seen and hopefully find their future college. The event was well-attended as we had roughly 70 players and 21 college coaches, even with the threat of some daunting winter weather. The players went through a pro style workout of running the 40-yard dash, the outfielders and infielders went through their standard drills and the catchers were tested on their blocking and throwing to second base. From there, we went into BP which was the bulk of the afternoon as 60+ players needed to hit. We were fortunate to have the Rapsodo hitting hooked up so that the metrics were displ...