🔥 Why I Was High School Good, But Had No Shot Beyond

I was like every baseball kid out there: I dreamed about MLB, and I thought that’s where I was going

But I had the same problem most young athletes have: I didn’t have any idea what it would ACTUALLY TAKE to get there

I didn’t realize because I was comparing myself to my high school teammates, and my high school competition.

And because I was winning high school awards, I thought I must be doing everything correctly

But if I would have objectively compared myself to the MLB level, where I SAID I wanted to go, I would have realized that the average MLB fastball is 94.0

Average

And I was throwing 78 to 80

So my physical therapy “workouts”, running poles, mechanical “fixes” and “new arm slots” wasn’t getting me any results at all.

The only reason for my “success” at an extremely low level, was due to my sport skill

I was an ocean behind where I needed to be physically

I was small, weak, and unathletic

And failing to address that gap made even the jump to a low level of college ball difficult, let alone having any chance of going further

-Fenske