How Midwest Surge Measures Organizational Success, Develops Players

When a team or organization evaluates it's season, the measure is often wins vs losses. While Midwest Surge teams are expected to be on-field winners, our main focus is to improve each individual player physically and mentally, and explore opportunities for all players to play college baseball. Winning games is fun, but improving in those games is the ultimate mission.

Our strategy for improving our players comes down to the 3 C's-- Cooperate, Commit, Compete. The first step in improving a player is having them recognize that they have much to learn about the game and that in order to improve, they must be willing to cooperate with our instructors/coaches to develop their skills. Once they grasp the concept of accepting criticism, we demand that they commit countless hours- many at practice but even more on their own time- to bettering themselves in the areas which our staff has specified. Lastly, we develop our players by facing top competition. We compete in college showcases and fill our schedule not against teams that we know we can beat but instead against teams that make us better.

We understand that our program demands much dedication from our players/families. In return for making Midwest Surge a top priority, our organization goes above and beyond in exploring college opportunities for all of our players during their later high school years. We find these opportunities not just by competing in college show cases and having college coaches come watch our games, but also through recruiting videos and personally reaching out to coaches for players who have lived up to our high expectations.