Supporter of amateur baseball in NE Indiana. 40 years of coaching experience at the youth and travel ⚾️ . Former East Noble HS asst. coach ⚾️ 90-‘95 ‘23-‘25
Indiana, USA
Joined August 2025
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Weights and Conditioning program ramps up next week!
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5 things I wish I knew before my first year as a high school head coach... 🧵
If I could go back and coach my younger self, these are the lessons I'd share.
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Calling all East Noble Baseball alumni, coaches, families, businesses and supporters!
We want to connect with you and everyone in the community to help build the future of East Noble Baseball. Every connection matters! Once a Knight, Always a Knight!
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Calling all East Noble Baseball alumni, coaches, families, businesses and supporters!
We want to connect with you and everyone in the community to help build the future of East Noble Baseball. Every connection matters! Once a Knight, Always a Knight!
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Here’s an opportunity get some college eyes on you to take advantage of should desire to play at the next level. Registration open for 10more days.
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Staff Development
Great assistant coaches don't wait around for instructions.
But great head coaches don't leave expectations up to interpretation either.
Good coaching staffs are built on clear alignment, never assumptions.
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Just had a student-athlete receive his second college scholarship offer.
Our head coach spoke with the college coach, and these were the questions they asked:
• How is his home life?
• How are his academics?
• How is he in the weight room?
• Is he coachable?
• Does he pick up on concepts?
• Are his parents a problem?
• Is he a complainer?
• Does he run track?
• What is his legitimate size?
Not one question about his stats.
Not a single one.
College coaches are evaluating the whole person.
Character. Family. Academics. Work ethic. Coachability. Football IQ. Physical development. Attitude.
The scoreboard matters. The film matters. The production matters.
But when a college coach is deciding whether they want to invest in a young man for the next four years, who he is matters just as much as what he does on Friday night.
That’s why we talk so much about building the person, not just the player.
The game may get you noticed. Your character determines what happens next.
@CoachJonWheeler
Coach_Riso37 retweeted
Parents, here's what a Division I baseball player looks like right now.
AGE
In 2022, the average D1 player was 20.1 years old.
By 2024, it was 21.9.
That's almost two years older in two seasons. The transfer portal, extra eligibility years, and roster limits have D1 programs filling spots with experienced college players instead of high school recruits.
SIZE
The starters in the 2024 College World Series finals averaged:
Height: about 6'1½"
Weight: 204 lbs
In 2024, they averaged nearly 210 lbs.
PLAYING TIME
Freshmen now play barely 10% of Division I innings.
So when someone tells you your 5'10", 165-pound high school junior is "definitely D1," ask yourself who he'd be competing against: a 22-year-old, 210-pound college veteran.
That doesn't mean your son can't get there. It means the path might run through D2, D3, NAIA, or JUCO first, where he can play, get bigger, get stronger, and move up.
Know the numbers. Plan accordingly.
Coach Drew
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Registration is open for our October 25 prospect camps!
More details and how to sign up: BallStateSports.com/Baseball…
ALT Camps graphic for Ball State baseball Text: Open to any and all registrants, (limited only by number, age, grade level, and/or gender) Ball State Baseball Prospect camp Pitchers/catchers Check-in | 7:45 AM October 25, 2026 Camp Time | 8:30 - 11:30 AM Hitting Check-in | 11:30 AM October 25, 2026 Camp time | 12:30 - 3:45 PM Infield / outfield defense Check-in 3:15 PM October 25, 2026 Camp Time | 3:45-5:45 PM 2027-30 HS grads, juco, and transfers are welcome Ball State baseball
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2024 East Noble Graduate!
#NextLevelKnight
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A message from every professional baseball scout to every high school and college potential baseball prospect.
We're always watching!
EVERY. SINGLE. LOOK.
Pregame work. I/O. BP. Bullpens. Intrasquads. Scrimmages and regular season games. Every one of those is a look — and every look is being written down.
How you run to first base… or do you run to first base. How you move on the field and off the field. How you throw between innings. How you take BP when you think no scout is watching. How you execute pitches in a side session or between innings warming up. How you handle or process a poor at bat. Whether you’re coachable or whether you’re not. And how you treat your teammates.
First one on the field?
Last one off the field?
It’s ALL being noted.
All of it.
Get to the Big Leagues first—before trying to act like those in the TV league. You’re not.
Scouts aren't just evaluating your tools. We're evaluating everything: your habits, your effort, your work ethic, and your character. The player who gives effort every rep stands out — because so few do it consistently.
Newsflash…Scouts don’t care about your “ranking” or what publications write about you (positive or negative). Scouts don’t care how much NIL money you’re getting, or if you’re getting any at all. We’ll make our own evaluations and our own decisions.
Be intentional. Play hard. No matter the setting, the score, the competition or who's in the stands. When you don't, you're only hurting yourself, and you’re to blame.
There is not much you can control in this game — but the one thing you can control is your effort, your work ethic, and your hustle.
Because when you least expect it, someone is ALWAYS watching, and you never know which look is the one that matters.
Winners Win!
Make. Every. Look. Count.
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They call it a game of failure. Marc Rardin calls it a game of opportunity. The failure is in there, but you continue to have opportunities, and that is what you have in life. If your son struck out today, tomorrow's game is the whole point of the sentence.
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The trend is not arguable.
A lot of kids get offers pulled after being seen and exposed in Jupiter.
Those kids will be announcing their decommitment on social media by thanking the school and their coaches even though they got their offer pulled.
It is an incredibly great but tricky event.
Most think it is the answer and it is not for a lot of players.
The kids that basically take the fall off except for Jupiter are the ones that are getting incredibly poor advice.
The most attended scouting and recruiting event in the country requires you to be game ready and in great shape.
If you are not ready to put on a show.
Do not go.
Especially if you are committed or a real draft prospect.
Until you sign the scholarship the school can pull the offer at any time and a lot of schools pull a lot of offers.
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Appreciate the opportunity to catch up @SteveKrah
Love what you do to promote the game of baseball!
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🚨New X account for EN Baseball🚨
Excited to get everyone together and start building what’s next for East Noble Baseball!
All are welcome to attend the Booster Meeting on Monday, September 21 at 7pm at the East Noble Middle School.
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Player A is better than Player B as high school seniors.
Player A signs at a D1 school.
Player B signs at a juco.
Player A sits the bench as a D1 freshmen.
Player B is a juco starter for the fall and spring season.
Player B now signs at the same D1 school that player A is at and plays over him.
or
Player B signs at a D1 school and Player A circles back to juco to catch up on playing time.
This is more common than most realize.
Nothing replaces game experience.
Go where you have the highest perfect chance to play as a freshman.
Go where you are wanted and needed.
YOUR KID IS NOT A SHORTSTOP.
He’s a baseball player who happens to be playing shortstop today.
There’s a difference.
And somewhere along the way, we started screwing this up.
“He’s a shortstop.”
“He only plays center.”
“He’s a third baseman.”
He’s 13.
Relax.
Because eventually he walks onto a high school field and guess what?
There are five other kids who were “the shortstop” too.
One is faster.
One has a better arm.
One can flat out pick it.
Now Coach says:
“Can you play second?”
“Can you handle third?”
“Can you go get a ball in center?”
And the kid looks at him like he just asked him to play hockey.
That’s a problem.
Learn the whole damn field.
Take ground balls everywhere.
Learn first base footwork.
Learn how to turn two from both sides of the bag.
Go track some balls in the outfield.
Know the cuts.
Know the relays.
Know where everybody else is supposed to be.
Because the quickest way to shrink a player’s future…
IS TO MAKE ONE POSITION HIS ENTIRE IDENTITY.
Coaches don’t need nine kids protecting their favorite spot.
They need baseball players who can help them win.
And players, listen to me.
If somebody better takes your position, you’ve got two choices.
Sit there saying…
“But I’m a shortstop.”
Or grab another glove and make yourself impossible to keep out of the lineup.
POSITIONS ARE WHERE YOU STAND.
BALLPLAYER IS WHAT YOU ARE.
⚾️ 3 LEFTS BASEBALL
