Baseball Recruits & Social Media — Should You Post Your Offers and Official Visits? Andy & Keith Debate | EMD Shorts

Football and basketball recruits have been posting their offers, official visits, and commitment announcements on social media for years — and that culture is now making its way into college baseball recruiting in a significant way. In this episode of Dugout Dish, Andy and Keith take on one of the newest and most talked about trends among today's high school baseball players and offer their honest, candid, and sometimes differing opinions on what recruits should be sharing on social media during the recruiting process and what they should think twice about before posting.

What we cover:

How social media has fundamentally changed the way today's student athletes are able to share their accomplishments and broadcast their recruiting journey to a wider audience than ever before

The growing trend of baseball recruits posting official visit schedules and offer announcements on social media platforms and how it mirrors the culture that has existed in football and basketball recruiting for years

Why this trend is still relatively new and still somewhat divisive in the baseball recruiting world compared to other sports

Andy's honest and personal take on the trend — what he thinks players gain from posting their recruiting journey publicly and where he sees potential pitfalls

Keith's perspective and where he agrees and disagrees — the conversation between two people with different opinions on the same topic makes for one of the most genuinely useful episodes for families trying to form their own view

How college coaches actually process and react to seeing recruits post offers and official visits on social media — and what it communicates about a player's character and priorities

The legitimate upside of social media visibility during the recruiting process and how strategic posting can actually increase a recruit's exposure to programs that may not have known about him yet

The potential downside that most players are not thinking about before they hit post — what can go wrong and how a post can create complications in the recruiting process

Practical and specific advice for baseball recruits on what kinds of content to post, what to avoid entirely, and how to use social media as a tool that helps rather than hurts their recruitment

How to think about social media during the recruiting process not just as a platform for sharing but as a representation of who you are to every coach who looks you up