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[00:01:12] Speaker B: Welcome to this week's edition of in the Clubhouse with EMD Baseball. I'm Andy Kidis, joined by my wonderful co host Keith Glasser. How we doing?
[00:01:20] Speaker C: Great. How are you?
[00:01:21] Speaker B: Good. Got a question from a listener that we're going to cover in today's this this week's short what are your thoughts on camps during the quiet period and even more specifically, the January February window?
For me, Quiet period camps come down to two things.
1. Are you ready to perform?
Right. So like we're at the end of October, middle of October.
If you're going to a camp during the quiet period, which just started this past Monday, October 13th to March 1st, there's a couple dead periods mixed in there as well, but essentially Division 1 coaches can't leave campus, so you're 27.
Question is thoughts on camp 2728 thoughts on camps during the quiet period.
1. You need to be ready to perform. This specifically for me is focused with pitchers.
You need to be in shape to go do what you're going to do.
So if you're going to a camp right now, you're probably in shape. If you've been playing this fall, no issues with that whatsoever. I'll get to my caveat to that.
But you get to that January February window and that's where you need to think long and hard about are you ready to go and do it, are you ready to go and throw effectively and are you healthy enough or are you built up enough to do it where you're not compromising your ability to be healthy in March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, so on and so forth for that upcoming recruiting cycle.
So that for me is kind of where the conversation starts about are you ready to do it? The second one is, are you going to a camp that's actually going to be fruitful? And we've talked about this in the past. You got to have an idea where you fit in the college baseball landscape.
So if you're not at the level that you need to be to go to the specific camp that you're looking at, you need to think twice about whether it's time to go and showcase there's right. If you're high academic, you need to make sure that you have the grades and the playing ability to go and fit at one of those schools.
So I think that for me there's, there's two, there's two questions you got to ask yourself. One, are you ready to perform? And two, is the camp that you're going to a place where you actually legitimately have a chance to be recruited?
So that's where, that's where my head goes when you're talking about quiet period camps and how you're making decisions on whether you should go or not.
[00:03:53] Speaker C: Agreed.
I think for arms, we've talked about this a lot. The, you can't just not throw, play hoops and then decide that you're going to go through a bullpen and think you're going to be good.
I think the other side of it too is the quiet period stuff from a camp perspective right now should be more focused towards the 27 class.
You know, if you're any younger than that, I don't necessarily think that it's going to be, to your point, very fruitful for you.
You know, the 28s and 29s, they're not really recruiting them at all at any level whatsoever.
And I think sometimes you can probably get your credit, your name crossed off a list a little bit easier than, than if you just waited and knock on, you know, but if you're, if you're a position guy and you know, you want to go take some ground balls or some, some indoor fly balls to showcase your, your, your two step drop and arm strength, by all means.
And if you want to, you know, if you've been hitting, you know, and I think it's along the same lines too though. Like you want to make sure that you've been in the cages, you've been hitting, you've seen some velocity, that you're not going to go somewhere and, you know, get blown up by 78 miles an hour and not really show that you can handle the pitching that is going to be asked of you at the college level.
And the reality is, like, a good portion of those camps, especially if you're a 27, you know, the outcome is going to be, you know, we're. We want to come see you play this spring, you know, so you can probably save yourself a little bit of time if you're not ready of just deciding not to go to that camp and then getting on the radar and going to a camp in the summer or, you know, being seen by them when they're at some of the tournaments you're going to be at.
But I think it's more, you know, it should be more direct as to what are, you know, and understanding what. What am I aiming to get out of this, you know, and in some regards, it might be, you want to see where you stack up and how you fare and things of that nature. And that's fine.
But understand that, like, especially in January, February camps, like, the likelihood of you walking out of that place with an offer to play at that school is going to be rather slim.
Not to say it doesn't happen, but I would argue that the vast majority of those camps are kind of more identification purposes than they are legitimately finding people and deciding that this is a guy that we want in our program. And we're going to move on it right now just because it's early and especially with. With what it looks like in the landscape. So, you know, to echo you, be ready, make sure it's going to be worth it. But also, you know, I think from a family and a kid, standp under, like, have a goal as to what it is you're looking to get out of that camp as well, you know, and sometimes it might just be. You want to see where you. Where you stack up. It might want to see, like, where do my met. Where are my metrics now to give me a baseline, you know, and where. Where do I fall on the recruiting board now? Because this is the school that I really, really want to go play at and kind of see where you are. So, like, if you're. If you're also getting something out of it that you're okay with, then by all means, but, you know, ultimately make sure that you're ready to go. Not only from a throwing standpoint, from a hitting standpoint, a fielding standpoint, make sure that you've been doing stuff. Don't just show up cold and think that it's going to work out really well. You know, you're going to want to have put some time in building up and in doing the things it is that you can go and showcase yourself to potentially be recruited by that program.
[00:07:34] Speaker B: Well said. I don't have anything else to add nor do I.
Well hopefully that was informative. Thank you everybody for listening. Tune in next week. We will talk to you then.
[00:07:46] Speaker D: Thank you.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: Thank you for listening this week.
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