How to Make a College Baseball Recruiting Video

I get asked all the time about recruiting videos and the importance of them. Recruiting videos are important.

However, it isn’t worth three hundred, four hundred, five hundred, or fifteen hundred dollars for someone to create a professionally edited video for you.

All you need is your iPhone or your camera, a parent or a friend, and about two minutes.

Coaches don’t want to see him put his name up there with his graduation year. They’ll have all of that in the initial email.

All you need to do is ten swings from the side, in BP or front toss, maybe three or four ground balls, and maybe see him throwing. From there, they’re going to get a good enough idea of how his body works and how he moves.

If you do too much, or you send too many game videos, they’re not going to watch it. Short and sweet.

You can’t hide from what you are, either. He’s good enough to play at that school or he isn’t, and a video isn’t really going to tell them whether he’s good enough.

All the video is going to do is give them a little piece of, “Hey, this kid may have the potential. I want to go out and see him at a camp or this summer.” Or this kid’s just not a guy I need to go see.

That’s all a recruiting video is. A first look. Not a movie.

Sit next to him when you film it. Don’t hire a production company to make him look like someone he isn’t. If he’s good enough, they’ll reach out.