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You’re gonna end up where you belong in baseball. – David Esquer

An on-base/speed guy needs consistent bat-to-ball, the ability to take walks and enough impact to drive the gaps. You don’t need 15 HR, but you need to show some extra-base ability.

The biggest thing I’d tell a JUCO freshman?

Attack your weaknesses and understand your strengths.

Don’t ignore the holes in your game. Work on them so they don’t prevent you from getting to the next level.

But don’t become so obsessed with being “well-rounded” that you lose sight of what makes you different.

Your weaknesses can keep you from getting recruited. Your strengths are usually what get you recruited. – Ethan Stith

Elite performers rise to the standards set in place. Some players will fall off, some won’t get on board, and that’s okay. Greatness isn’t for everyone.

The right guys will buy in and make it a priority. Addition by subtraction. – Austin Bylar

Sight is never the determining factor in our success. It’s always that vision and our ability to see things before they exist. – Lex Gillette

The Toronto Blue Jays offered my son first-round money out of high school. The kind of number that changes a family’s life. He turned it down to go to Vanderbilt.

People said we were crazy. The money is real, and the draft is never promised twice.

He won a College World Series, earned the degree, and went 14th overall three years later. The money was still there. By then the education was not optional; it was his.

I do not share that to brag. The pathway was the point. The bat/arm gets an athlete looked at. The classroom decides how long he stays in the game, and who he is when it ends. – Walter Beede

When it comes to collegiate baseball recruiting, always abide by your ABCs. Academics, Baseball and Character. In this specific order. – Gary Cohn