TALENT NEEDS A RECRUITING PLAN. Four moves to make your next step specific: 1. Introduce yourself. Send a concise, personal email with your graduation year, position, school, academics, verified measurables and a working video link. Explain why that program interests you. Use the staff’s official contact details. 2. Research a broad, realistic school list across levels. Fifty schools can be an example starting exercise—not a rule or a mass-email quota. Refine the list with your family and coaches. 3. Prioritize fit: academics, cost after aid, current roster needs and player development. Ask coaches how they see your potential role. Playing time is not guaranteed. 4. Keep your own tracker: school, coach, email date, reply, next step and follow-up date. Follow up with a useful update, and respect the program’s instructions. Keep developing as you follow through. Update your video and measured results as your game changes. NCAA communication rules vary by sport, division and grade level, so a delayed reply is not a complete evaluation of your ability. START WITH A PLAN. Get your free RecruitIQ projection as one starting point for planning: topvelocity.org/recruitiq/ Projection estimates are not recruiting offers, scholarship promises or guarantees of an outcome. Name, email and phone are requested to unlock the report. Outreach and school-list tracking are steps you manage separately. College-fit research: Al-Fattal et al. (2025), a qualitative study of 33 D2 athletes—not a trial of recruiting outcomes. doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2025.1… Recruiting rules: ncaa.org/eligibility-center/… Original AI illustrations; fictional athletes and scenarios. This is an educational story, not an athlete’s personal recruiting history. #CollegeBaseball #BaseballRecruiting #StudentAthlete #RecruitIQ #TopVelocity

80 PITCHES SATURDAY. BACK ON THE MOUND SUNDAY? At age 14, an 80-pitch Saturday requires four pitching-rest days—Sunday through Wednesday—under Pitch Smart. Build a season-long development plan: • Respond to arm fatigue. Stop throwing when the athlete is tired; elbow or shoulder pain needs evaluation. • Track the whole year across teams and coaches. Keep game pitches, other throwing and intensity in the same conversation. • Plan time away from throwing each year. • Develop age-appropriate strength, mobility and movement skills with qualified coaching. Keep recovery in that plan. Develop velocity alongside physical preparation, workload management and recovery. A young pitcher’s plan should reflect their age, development and current condition. BRING THE SCIENCE HOME. Share this with a coach or parent who puts athlete health first. Learn the system and explore joining TopVelocity Performance Centers to start a center in your community: topvelocity.org/org-registra… Research note: “Serious injury” in slide 4 meant surgery or retirement because of a throwing injury. Sources: Pitch Smart: mlb.com/pitch-smart/pitching… ASMI: asmi.org/position-statement-… Sakata et al., AJSM 2018: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2909… Fleisig et al., AJSM 2011: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2109… Olsen et al., AJSM 2006: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1645… Sakata et al., AJSM 2019: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3133… Original AI illustrations; fictional athletes and scenarios. #YouthBaseball #PitchingDevelopment #BaseballCoaching #TopVelocity

Pitching will humble you long before life does. You can execute perfectly and still give up a hit. You can fall behind 3–0 and still win the at-bat. One pitch does not decide your season. Reset. Trust your stuff. Control the next pitch. Keep shoving. Which slide did you need today? Comment the number, save this for your next tough outing, and send it to a pitcher who needs it. Discover your velocity potential—free: topvelocity.org/velocity-cal… Follow @topvelocity for data-driven pitching development. #Pitching #PitcherDevelopment #BaseballTraining #PitchingVelocity #TopVelocity

The fastest pitch is not always the toughest pitch to hit. We ranked five MLB pitch families using four seasons of Statcast data—2022 through 2025 and at least 50,000 pitches per type. The model rewards lower expected damage, more whiffs, and more swings outside the zone. The result: the splitter finished #1 in this framework. The college slide is intentionally labeled differently. There is no public NCAA-wide Statcast database, so those numbers are shown as a recent college-level TrackMan proxy plus peer-reviewed D1 benchmarks—not a national D1 ranking. Save this for your next pitch-design session, and send it to the pitcher who still thinks velocity tells the whole story. Want to know how your best pitch actually grades? Enter velocity, spin, IVB, and horizontal break in the free PitchDNA tool: topvelocity.org/grade-my-pit… #TopVelocity #PitchDNA #PitchDesign #BaseballTraining #Pitching