Size and Strength Separate High School From College Baseball

Most high school players underestimate what size and strength does for the tools. On a college field the first thing a freshman notices is not a new drill. It’s that the upperclassmen are grown men. College athletes are men and are very strong. Size and strength are the big separators between the high school and college game.

You need to get your son in the weight room. If he is still young, even getting him to fall in love with pullups, pushups, pogo jumps, and things like that will help him begin to develop fast twitch muscle fibers. Lean muscle mass helps the 60, the arm, and the exit velo. Have him train rotation power with medicine balls. There is no excuse not to be doing some version of this if the goal is college baseball.

This is not bodybuilding. Low reps, heavy enough but still able to be explosive. Exercises like squats, hinges, med-ball, and weighted chin-ups. You don’t need to become his strength coach, and you don’t need another trainer. You just need to make sure the work happens and that he doesn’t hurt himself… and that he eats like someone who wants to add weight instead of surviving on gas-station food after games.

Strength is one of the few things that’s honestly easy to improve if the work gets put in. Treat it that way. The tools still have to match the level he wants. The chart is in The 3 Measurable Tools.