Is college baseball worth it?

myusername23
Sun, 28 Apr 2013 16:05:35 +0000

Hello all, this is my first post here. Let me tell you guys a little bit about myself. I am a current junior pitcher talking to some coaches about the possibility of playing for their program. Some of the schools I’ve been in contact with are Georgetown, Davidson, Bucknell, Dartmouth, and Princeton and other schools like this. Up until this year, I was 100% sure that I wanted to play college baseball, however, I am not so sure anymore. I’ve been doing my research and the time commitment seems huge. Especially at the good academic schools I’m looking at, it doesn’t seem like baseball players have much of a social life (this is based on countless posts on this website and others detailing the everyday life of a student athlete at a high level academic school). I’d like to party and have fun in college a fair amount. If I do not play baseball however, a lot of opportunities to go to high level academic schools close. This has been causing me a lot of anxiety and I’m worried that if I play I will be unhappy and regret it. My parents (Dad especially) is very aggressive towards me playing. He showed me my summer schedule today and I have no days off in June and July. Parents of players and players of high academic level D1 schools, is it worth it? Or is it just too much on your plate?