For baseball parents

The reel a baseball coach will watch

Built from the clips already on your phone, and sent to the 1,590 college baseball programs in our list. You send it from your own address, and you see who opened it.

No credit card required · Clips never leave your phone

The coach list

Who to write to, at what level

1,590

College baseball programs

49

States covered

5

Levels, from D1 to JUCO

D1
301
D2
251
D3
373
NAIA
187
JUCO
478

What we have, and what we don’t

1,435 of these 1,590 programs — 90% — come with a coach’s address already looked up. For the rest, the draft opens with an empty To: and a link to that school’s staff page for you to fill in. We would rather show you a search than a guessed address that bounces.

674 of them ask players to introduce themselves through a recruiting questionnaire instead. That is usually the channel the staff actually reads, not a consolation prize, so it is linked from the draft.

Whatever address you find is saved to your list and nobody else’s. Contacts are never written back to the shared program record — that is how a directory gets quietly repointed at somebody who wants your outreach.

Where the list comes from

The programs are from the federal EADA filings every college sponsoring the sport has to make. The coaches are read off each school’s own published staff page by a crawler that identifies itself and honours robots.txt.

A coach who wants out is out in one click, for every family, permanently.

What to film

Angles, not highlights

It is one format, and it is opinionated on purpose. Coaches describe closing the tab on music and slow motion, so there is no way to add either.

Pitcher

  • 1520

    Side view, behind the mound

    Stand behind and to the throwing-arm side of the mound. Film 15–20 consecutive pitches — not just the good ones. Coaches read arm action and repeatability, and a reel of only strikeouts tells them nothing about either.

  • 810

    45° toward first base

    From roughly 45° off the first-base line, 8–10 pitches. This is the angle that shows stride direction and where the front side lands.

Position player

  • 1015

    Behind the catcher

    Directly behind the plate, above the backstop if you can. 10–15 swings, live pitching if possible. This is the angle coaches ask for first.

  • 1015

    Open side, level with the plate

    From the open side, level with the batter. 10–15 swings. Shows the load, the stride and where the barrel enters the zone.

  • 610

    Defensive reps

    6–10 fielding reps from a position that shows footwork and the throw completing. A catch with no throw is half a rep.

What never goes in

  • music beds over live audio (the crack of the bat is evaluation signal)
  • slow motion
  • filters, colour grades, light leaks
  • beat-matched cuts
  • highlight-only edits with no failures shown
  • reels over 120 seconds

The iPhone app that assembles this is coming. Everything else works today — upload a video you already have and the page, the coach list and the tracking all run without it.

What coaches see

A page, not an attachment

One link that opens on a phone between innings, with no login and nothing to install. Every link you send is unique to one program, which is what turns “did anyone look?” into a list.

Measurables carry where they came from — your stopwatch, your coach’s, or a third-party event. Coaches dismiss a whole page over one number that reads as invented.

The baseball measurables it prompts for

  • 60-Yard Dashsec
  • 10-Yard Splitsec
  • Vertical Jumpin
  • Broad Jumpin
  • Exit Velocitymph
  • Bat Speedmph
  • Max Distanceft
  • Fastball Velocitymph
  • Fastball, Averagemph
  • Curveball Velocitymph
  • Slider Velocitymph
  • Changeup Velocitymph
  • Fastball Spin Raterpm
  • Pop Timesec
  • Catcher Velocitymph
  • Infield Velocitymph
  • Outfield Velocitymph

Blank is a real answer for every one of them. A page that invents a 60 time is worse than one that leaves it out.

We count clicks, never opens

Mail apps pre-load images and manufacture opens that never happened, and the security filters college athletic departments run click every link in an inbound email to scan it. Both would let us show you impressive numbers that mean nothing. Watch progress is tracked separately, because a scanner never presses play.

03What comes back

Example — not real programs

  • Coastal State

    2 of 3
    • Coach Ramos · Watched the full reel100%
    • Coach Whitfield · Watched 0:3844%
    • Coach Iyer · Not opened
  • Valley Union

    1 of 2
    • Coach Delacroix · Opened twice · 2d ago62%
    • Coach Aoki · Not opened
  • Harbor College

    1 of 2
    • Coach Nwosu · Watched 0:14 · 3d ago67%
    • Coach Bittner · Not opened

You stop guessing who actually watched it.

When they can reply

Silence is often the rulebook

The NCAA rules bind coaches, not your player, who may email anyone today. The only question is when a coach is allowed to answer — and families read that silence as rejection. Each draft tells you that program’s date before you send it.

Division I
August 1 of junior year
Division II
No date restriction
D3 · NAIA · JUCO
No date restriction

D1 baseball is not the June 15 date you will see quoted everywhere — that is the general rule, and quoting it to a baseball family is simply wrong. Dates re-checked each August.

Free until you want the coaches

The page is free — no credit card, no trial countdown, no expiry. The college coach directory is $19 a month per player, month to month, cancel in one click.

Coaching a team? Set up your roster and send one link to every family. Playing softball instead? That page is written for you.