(In one MLB highlight video) he caught a ball way deep in the hole, up the middle basically, and threw a one-hopper, which is on purpose for him. “Pay attention to where the ball goes when he throws,” Weber said earlier this year. But still a player who got where he is offensively and defensively through superior hand-eye coordination, and still does to this day.
A player who was underrated by Major League teams. A player who was underrated by college coaches. One player who still plays the game the same way he did as a shortstop for Weber’s team eight years ago: David Fletcher, a baseball enigma in every sense of the word. But he feels there is such a significant gap between what’s focused on at the MLB level and the high school level, that he opts to just ignore it. The Cypress High School (Calif.) baseball coach has seen many of his players go onto the pro ranks - some even to the big leagues. Candidly, he says, he just doesn’t like the way the game is played at that level. It’s very rare for John Weber to watch a Major League Baseball game.
