Hi everyone, its Jared here! I have been really busy since the last time I posted anything on the website. I had three days of baseball tryouts a few weeks ago. It is like the NFL Combine and the NFL Draft because the coaches look at you to see if they want to pick you in the draft for their team. You also have to do a bunch of different drills that the coaches think of, just like the NFL Combine. Some of the things I did were ground ball, fielding, pop-fly, batting and soft toss drills. My mom kept reminding me to do my best, have fun and to try to learn something new each time I went to a try-out.
I was really nervous. This was the first time that I was not an “automatic” pick because we didn’t know if my step-dad was going to coach this season. I went to all of the try-out days, even though you only had to go to 2 out of 3 to be in the draft. I just wanted to be sure. It felt sort of weird to be competing, in a way, with all of my friends I had made in the last four years that I played baseball. But we actually just had a lot of fun with everything, even on the really cold day that we played baseball in the snow, my feet were really soaked! It was frustrating not knowing which team I was going to play on. But I knew I had tried my best every day that I was on the field. I felt relieved when the coach called and told me which team I was going to be on. I know some of the kids on the team. My step-dad is going to coach, but it felt GREAT to know that I had earned my spot.
I loved watching the NFL draft. GO CHARGERS!!
