You will ideally start crafting your Hot List before your junior season.

A Hot List is simply a list of colleges that fit you as a baseball player, a student, and a person.

As you come across schools of interest be sure to keep track of them.  This will be the early stages of your Hot List.

Pay attention to the colleges you get to visit, the colleges older teammates go to, and any other colleges that stand out to you both athletically and academically.

Ultimately, we will help you figure out exactly what level of college baseball is right for you (Step #3 in the BRC). Once we get that ironed out, you will fill in the rest of your Hot List with schools that fit your talent level, academic level, and your future goals.

Your Hot List will ideally start with 15 colleges at the level we determined was the best fit for your skill level and then 5 colleges in the level above and 5 colleges in the level below. 

For example, if we determine that your baseball skill set is at a D2 level than your Hot List will ideally consist of 15 D2 schools, 5 D1 Schools, and 5 D3/NAIA schools.

This will be the list of coaches that you begin sending your skills video to your junior year.  As colleges fall off of your list (either they don’t have a need for your position, don’t think you’re a good fit, or other possible reasons), you will continue to add more.

The end goal is to have as many college baseball opportunities as possible at the end of the process.