Bryce Rainer describes what makes baseball in California unique from the rest of the country
Yahoo Sports senior MLB analysts Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman sat down with the Texas commit to discuss what it was like playing for one of the top high school teams in America and the difference between baseball in California and the rest of the country. Subscribe to the “Baseball Bar-B-Cast” podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.
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Curious what the experience was like of playing on such a competitive high school team.
It's honestly awesome.
I like there's really not too much of a difference coming from summer into your high school season, which I think is, is pretty awesome.
And every day, like, there's no, just push me over teams.
Everyone has good players, everyone is coached well.
And it, it's honestly, it's really fun and it feels like that carried over to your experience at NHS.
I, I know that was certainly the spring and that's a cool event too because that is, that is your, your high school team, right?
Getting to, getting to travel.
I don't know how much you got to travel with your actual high school team and that's across the country, which is a pretty unique opportunity.
So, what was, what was that week like that also was pretty awesome to be able to because you're so used to just going on short little trips with your high school team.
Getting to do it across country together was just, it was different.
It was fun.
Uh, we all had a lot of fun and it's really cool to play different.
High schools from different parts of the country.
Like playing different teams, like, they're all just coached so differently than give us, give us an example.
Like, what, what, how does it feel different when you're playing against a team from Florida or a team in Georgia or a team?
And you play the team from New Jersey?
Right.
I know, I know the parents probably sound a little bit like that's part of it.
I would, I would say just the little ins and outs of baseball.
I, I feel like from my experience California teams tend to do the little things a lot more like bunt a lot more, a lot of pick offs where some of the other teams kind of just, they're off, they just go out there and New Jersey, New Jersey is like leg kick, draw a back shoulder while in, in California.
When you can, when you can play year round, you can work on your, your very very minute details of the, of the game in January us, northeast grinders, man.
Like we, we don't have time for that once it gets warm.
Let's just play baseball.
You don't have to think about the fundamental.