How are tryouts usually run by high school coaches. My tryouts are a week long. What do you think the tryouts will consist of as far as hitting, fielding etc.

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Originally posted by jvos baseball:
How are tryouts usually run by high school coaches. My tryouts are a week long. What do you think the tryouts will consist of as far as hitting, fielding etc.

Hitting, bunting, groundball, fly balls, 40 yard dash time and running and more running, cone drills for speed and agility times.

This is a short list or at least what happened at my sons JV tryouts that I could pull out of him.


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I like the idea of week long tryouts--it give the player a chance to show himself ---much better than a one day session

We do three days of tryouts. First day we do defensive fundamentals and show some basics and then they do them to see how they pick up what we have just taught. Second day we do nothing but hit in our indoor facility. Third day - cut day - we let them go to the position they want to tryout for and do a whole field position to see how they react.

We do very little coaching outside of the first day. Reason is the ones who are no doubt to make it we can wait with them until we get started. The ones who are no doubt we will cut there really isn't any point in wasting our time. We do make corrections / comments to the ones that are on the fence. If we are not sure about them then we look for things to correct and see how they react. Usually we will keep the ones who try to do the things we want them to and if they dont do the stuff we want then they might not be coachable.

We tell them on cut day they will be given one of three outcomes - keep outright, cut outright or give them a week's extension. We saw something we like but still not quite sure. So we bring them back for a week and let them get more reps in.

At my high school, our coach doesn't do true "try outs." He only has 20 days to practice or thereabouts and probably 75% of that will be spent inside due to weather. He pretty much starts practice on day one. Part of this is that for the most part, he's only going to cut two-three players total. Freshman thru senior. We have 3 teams: Varsity, JV (mainly sophomores), and freshmen.

He goes through like somewhat normal practice routine and is able to get a pretty clear evaluation of whether a kid can help the team.

At our small school there isn't really a formal try out. They had weekly "voluntary" work outs for a month or so and this week began daily "voluntary" practices. So, the coaches have a pretty good idea what's out there already. Mar. 5 is the first official practice day and all the kids going out will practice together. Probably the following Monday all cuts will be made and the rest divided up between JV and V.