Does anyone else share the opinion that High School Baseball statistics and information are for some reason not made as visible as HS Football or Basketball. Football and Basketball statistics are seemingly plastered everywhere while baseball info is locked up in a closet and the key swallowed. Now I admit Baseball does not receive the same coverage its counterparts do but the lack of information shared by the coaches to school webpages, and outlets such as Maxpreps and other online publications is puzzling. In most cases basic rosters or schedules are hard to be found much less statistics of the athletes be shown. Baseball people are stereotypically more superstitious but I have to ask who are coaches hiding from. If in the other major sports you have Rosters with Height, Weight, Positions, and Starters listed, Statistics submitted to multiple outlets, Video is shared between teams, and Play by Play of events broadcast over the internet with no fear of competitive disadvantage then why not Baseball. To me only the kids are being cheated with limited exposure in already less media covered environment which hurts their opportunity to be found by a college or scout due to what i consider to be silly superstitions. This thought first came to me selfishly last year as i looked to just get simple Roster info from opposing teams (Name and Number would have sufficed) in order to not have to scramble last minute to input them into my Digital Scorekeeper but no info was provided anywhere for a majority of the teams we played. Even trying to email opposing coaches got no results. However when i would arrive for football games I would have any and all information laid out on multiple pages for opposing teams. The more i thought about it and researched online the more it bothered me and thought i would open up a conversation here to get the opinions of you guys and what you think could be done to enhance the visibility of HS Baseball in these parts.
I have included the link below to the digital scorekeeper that I used last year that will save you alot of time and frustration in recording and computation of statistics
iScore Baseball Digital Scorekeeper
I have included the link below to the digital scorekeeper that I used last year that will save you alot of time and frustration in recording and computation of statistics
iScore Baseball Digital Scorekeeper