It's my 4th year here , and I know about balancing school . I know how hard the transition is freshman year . I know how the adjustment period to college baseball versus high school baseball is .
I committed in , in March of my senior year , and I felt ready , you know , to go to finish my high school career strong . And once I hit the summer and and got to Evanton in the fall , ready to roll and , and jump in , you're ready to go . I've always been an academic person , so for me , I was trying to find a balance of the best possible academics with the best possible baseball .
With , you know , high velocity pitching machines , just getting reps of catching your arms as much as possible . Um , all , all that type of stuff helps kind of get you adjusted and acclimated . Um , and I think that really helped me on a defensive side to be able to come in and , and be ready to catch right away at the college level .
Or a lot of the times , you know , 95% of the time , it's either your timing or what pitch you're swinging at . And that just kind of comes down to your approach , your plan when you get into the box , um , how sold out or committed you are to it . Um , and if it aligns with , you know , what you're actually gonna get at the plate .
So being able to , one , adapt to like higher velocity , better stuff , better arms , and two , being able to hit mistakes more often early in the count , I think it's something that you , you have to be able to do and get better at . Um , that was definitely one thing that kind of jumped out , you know , in the box once I got to college . On the defensive side , I think a lot of it is , you know , catching way better pitchers with more movement , uh , more accuracy , more velocity , um , you know , it's a , it's definitely a jump in terms of what you're used to seeing and , and I think the more preparation you do .
