I'm noticing that the recruiting advice that is pinned to the top of this board is from 2023 and 2024, and wondering what might have changed since then.
Probably a lot is the same, but the explosion of portal entries and summer opportunities for portal players to get noticed (e.g., American Collegiate League) has to be having an impact on high school recruiting.
My own observation is that high school recruiting is even more centered around elite pitchers, catchers and hitters... with most other position players - even the really good ones - not getting as many eyeballs until their senior year of HS, at best.
This makes sense from a college program perspective since the odds probably are better for grabbing a kid who has demonstrated that they can already maintain the grades and discipline required to be a college athlete for at least a year - versus hoping that a high school student can make it at the next level.
If this is accurate, then those players who aren't pitchers, catchers or 5'10' hitters with 80 MPH exit velo might want to be more open to the juco and/or mid-major route as part of a "stepping up" strategy to the higher levels of the college game.
The point is: an exceptional or “freakish” body or athlete.
Said another way, HS “grade As” are still getting recruited their junior years (mostly P/C), but the Bs are being pushed down the priority list and timeline due to the portal dynamic.
