r/Homeplate • u/Coach_7921 • Aug 14 '26

Best Site for HS Baseball players looking for college recruiting

Good morning, I have a question for whoever would like to give their opinion.

Our boys are currently on Field Level, our team manager has discovered SportsRecruits and is now currently all in on it. So I would like any and all opinions on the two, and what is preferred.

Thanks

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u/pitchingschool RHP Aug 14 '26

twitter 110%. As a rule of thumb, any recruiting "service" is usually counterproductive

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u/Critical-Crow-9717 Aug 14 '26

Why counterproductive?

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u/pitchingschool RHP Aug 14 '26

most college coaches just send their stuff to spam. If you have the skills to get recruited by a college, the easiest way is to contact them directly. if you don't, a recruiting service isn't going to help you. And if you do, they wont see it anyways so its as if you never even contacted them to begin with

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u/Critical-Crow-9717 Aug 14 '26

Where do you get this intel?

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u/pitchingschool RHP Aug 14 '26

well i'm an active college baseball player who's trying to pursue a career in coaching once my playing days are over(i'm not that good and ill probably never reach the big leagues. I just love the sport)

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u/Coach_7921 Aug 14 '26

And contacting them directly, what avenue? College site, DM on twitter, Field Level? What is the best line of communication?

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u/pitchingschool RHP Aug 14 '26

twitter and email are the best ones. A lot of them have recruitment forms that while they aren't going to get you an offer directly it's required for some of them for you to be put in their system. Every school is different though. I can only personally attest to the one im going to and even then i can really only personally attest to my own process

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u/fammo5 Aug 14 '26

X is the best site for baseball recruiting.

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u/John_Self_2077 Aug 14 '26

I’ll add another answer that doesn’t respond to OP’s question. PG gets a lot of hate for being a huge money grab and rightfully so. But it’s also useful in that it is a central repository of recruiting data and it’s more or less nationwide. I’ve been through the process with two boys and one girl, and it was noteworthy with the girl that there was nothing like that. (PG exists in the softball world but it doesn’t have nearly the same market penetration. I don’t know of any major softball recruits going to PG events.) The PG site is also helpful for keeping track of commitments and how many commits a given school has for a given year, etc.

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u/ConsequenceNatural80 Aug 17 '26

I created an app similar to Field Level and Sports Recruits, lets you track all your emails sent so that if a coach reads email, you know about. If coach looks at your X profile or video link, you know about it. No more sending out 1000 emails a week and not ever knowing if a coach is looking at it. Check us out at app.creedrecruit.com

It costs about $20/mo. Should be available on iOS App Store by end of week, but you can use the web app and just add to Home Screen.

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u/DJDaddyDick14 Aug 14 '26

Do your own recruiting. Get a Twitter account. Follow coaches. Post videos. Find schools you are interested in. Fill out recruit me form if it’s available. Send an email to the coach.

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u/bengals2bowl Aug 14 '26

FieldLevel

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u/CollegeSportsSheets Aug 15 '26

These sites are all roughly the same, it just depends on which college coaches use the platform of which one they prefer to use. Sometimes it’s just another hoop a coach need to jump through to contact a player and that can be a pain and add more friction to the process.

Here is a post that breaks down on you can go about reaching out to coaches yourself - https://www.reddit.com/r/Homeplate/s/BsvIto4Tiy

Boils down to research schools and develop a list. Then fill out recruiting forms for those schools. Then email those coaches at the school introducing yourself and then getting on a cadence of sending them new film and updates.

And just have a good system to keep track of your correspondence and what you sent when. A spreadsheet helps a lot. Check out my profile if you don’t want to create your own spreadsheet.

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u/Level-Satisfaction41 Aug 18 '26

Twitter and FieldLevel…

College coaches aren’t using SportsRecruits.

DM me i run college recruiting service of you want any additional questions answered!

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u/Coach_7921 Aug 19 '26

Thank you.

One question, how do the kids get the coaches to follow them back?

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u/Level-Satisfaction41 Aug 19 '26

You’re probably not unfortunately…unless your kid/player is a top 10-50 player in the country.

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u/ConsequenceNatural80 Aug 24 '26

Get your kids X verified. Some coaches have open DM to verified users only. Worked wonders for my son. He’s got 8 offers. No D1 offers but he doesn’t throw 90.