Three central Ohio's top pitchers, all high school juniors, have committed to play for OUr Bobcats.
* Lichtenauer of Licking Valley. Pitched 3 shutout innings with 3 Ks in Valley's tourney loss last week.
* Andrew Endres of Hilliard Davidson. Gave up 2 runs in 6 innings last week as Davidson beat higher seed New Albany last week.
* Landtiser of Pickerington Central. Threw 7 shutout innings with 12 Ks in tourney win last week. I saw him pitch earlier in the year against Newark. Radar had him at low- to mid-80s fastball with tough-to-hit off-speed pitches. Pitched 8.1 shutout innings with Newark winning in 10 innings, 1-0.
Endres and Landtiser's teams are still alive in state tourney. They are teammates during summer travel ball season.
I pose this as a question in the title because who knows if Ohio baseball coach will still be around when they're ready to sign as high school seniors.
Committed and signed are two totally different things, especially in college baseball.
Curious what your thinking is on this? In my experience, the large majority of commits end up signing, especially at the mid-major level. I'm not sure baseball has the funding to offer much NIL to steal a kid but that is something I have zero experience in so I could be way off on that.
In my day, scholarship was essentially NIL. Typically the school that ponies up the larger % of scholarship is going to win the bid on a recruit. Most offers end up being 25-50% with maybe 1 kid on the team getting a full ride. Times have changed so I have no idea what this looks like these days but I know the scholarship allowance is still at 11.9 or whatever ridiculous number is has been.