Two Clocks Baseball The System for Recruiting Train early · Recruit right

Our Mission Statement

Two Clocks Baseball helps families navigate D2, D3, and JUCO recruiting without wasting money or hope. Train early (10–16). Recruit right (16–18). With target schools' own camps and personal outreach, families turn development into real coach conversations — and a college their player would attend even if baseball ended.

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For baseball parents · D2 / D3 / JUCO reality

Train early.
Recruit right.

Recruiting services charge thousands for emails college coaches delete. One dad on r/Homeplate spent ~$4,000 on Perfect Game showcases and got basically nothing — every real coach conversation his family ever had came from emails they sent themselves. We know, because we just lived the other way: no services, no showcase-first plan — a presidential scholarship at a D3 college.

$0spent on recruiting services
$125a school camp vs. ~$795 a showcase
16the age recruiting actually starts
Two clocks run a baseball childhood. Most families only watch the wrong one.
The showcase bill “Spent roughly $4k on PG and showcases. Basically nothing came from it. Every coach conversation started with an email we sent.” — r/Homeplate parent
What a D3 coach actually opens “Service emails go straight to the filter. Send me your major, height/weight, velo, GPA — and video with a radar gun in frame.” — D3 pitching coach, 193 upvotes
The roster math nobody publishes One D3 program carried 110 players into the fall. If you don’t know the roster math at your position, you don’t know your real odds. — r/Homeplate thread

The method

The Two Clocks System

Two clocks. Parents keep confusing them. There are two timelines in a baseball kid’s life, and they start six years apart. The showcase industry makes its money blurring them together — selling recruiting pressure to 13-year-olds and exposure to kids who should be spending on development. Here is the reality, the way we just lived it — we call it The Two Clocks System.

The Development Clock

Starts 10–16
  • Individual training with trusted coaches — pitching, hitting, fielding. This is non-negotiable, and this is where the money goes.
  • Play up in travel ball — players improve by playing consistently, and a travel season built around the school schedule keeps the reps coming against high-level competition, where the skills built in training actually get tested.
  • Measurables are built here: velocity, spin, bat speed, strength. Slowly, over years.
  • No recruiting until the recruiting clock turns at 16. No showcases. No pressure. Just get better — and keep training right through 16, even as recruiting begins.

My son’s curveball — 2,776 rpm in his August Trackman pen — was built on this clock, years before any coach knew his name.

The Recruiting Clock

Starts at 16 · 10th grade
  • Not sooner. College coaches are not building relationships with 8th graders. Anyone selling you that timeline is selling you.
  • Build a target list on fit — major offered, real level, roster depth at his position.
  • Personal emails with video, then the schools’ own camps. That’s how we did it. The camp is where a coach actually sees your kid.
  • The video in those emails comes from travel games — real at-bats and real innings against strong competition, filmed all summer and fall.

The emails and video set up the camp. The camp is the tryout. Everything else is noise.

Where is your player right now?

Pick his age. We’ll tell you which clock he’s on — and what to do this season.

Pick an age above

Most families are surprised how much of the answer is “not yet — train.”

The Two Clocks System

The flow, in order

Nine steps. This is The Two Clocks System in order — the exact sequence the kit walks you through, the same one my son followed, the one that ended with a roster spot and a presidential scholarship at a D3 college.

  1. 1

    Train (10–16)

    Individual instruction with trusted pitching, hitting, and fielding coaches. Development money, not exposure money. Everything later is built on what happens here.

    Kit Tab 2 · Timeline & Checklist

  2. 2

    Build your list (16)

    15–20 schools screened on fit first: Does the school offer his major? Is the level real — D2, D3, JUCO? How deep is the roster at his position? A list built on fit gets replies; a list built on logos gets silence.

    Kit Tab 3 · School Tracker

  3. 3

    Find the coach

    The directory names the head coach at all 164 Southeast D2, D3, and JUCO programs — with 129 published emails you can click to write to and 134 published phone numbers, verified October 2026 and refreshed monthly. The weekend of hunting staff pages school by school is already done for you: you know exactly whose inbox your email lands in.

    Kit Tab 4 · Coaches Directory

  4. 4

    Film once

    One clean video: measurables on camera, radar gun in frame for pitchers — plus game clips from the travel season, where coaches can watch him compete against real lineups. Coaches scan video in seconds — give them the numbers they scan for.

    Kit Tab 5 · Video Examples

  5. 5

    Email personally

    Short, specific, from your family — never a service blast. Major, height/weight, velo, GPA, video link, and the camp you’ll attend. That’s the email a D3 pitching coach said he actually opens.

    Kit Tab 6 · Email Templates (logged in Tab 7)

  6. 6

    Pick your camps

    57 verified 2026 camps across six Southeast states — 18 JUCO, 29 D2, and 10 D3 — each with its date and published cost, $50–$450. And every camp in the kit is for players ages 12 and up — no little-kid camps. These are the schools’ own camps at the schools already on your list — the ones where players actually get recruited — not another showcase weekend. 2027 camps are already populating their own tab — Tab 9, with 2 verified camps so far: Berry College’s Advanced Skills / Prospect Camp on January 9 and August 14, 2027 ($225) — and more added as schools announce them.

    Every camp in the kit is for players 12 and up.

    Kit Tabs 8–9 · 2026 & 2027 School Camps

  7. 7

    Camp at target schools

    The school’s own camp is where the coach sees him live, against their standard, on their field. ~$125 buys what a $795 showcase rarely does: a real evaluation by the people who make the decision.

    Kit Tab 2 · Timeline & Checklist

  8. 8

    Track every dollar

    Every expense gets one test: did it start a coach conversation? The tracker totals showcase spend against camp spend, side by side, so the leak is impossible to ignore.

    Kit Tab 10 · Spend Tracker

  9. 9

    Decide on real cost

    Compare offers on what you’ll actually pay — merit aid, academic money, and fit included. A presidential scholarship at the right D3 can beat a logo and a pile of debt.

    Kit Tab 1 · Start Here

Between the seasons

Travel ball matters. It’s where the video comes from.

High school ball is the spine of the year — but it isn’t the whole year. Players improve by playing, consistently: reps in real games, week after week, are how development actually happens. The travel season, played in the summer and fall around the high school schedule, is what keeps those reps coming — against high-level competition — and it’s where the game film college coaches actually watch gets made. Skip the showcase circuit as the plan, yes. Skip travel ball, no — it does two jobs nothing else does.

High-level competition

Training builds skills, but games are where they become his — and only if he plays consistently. School schedules vary wildly, and the school season alone leaves long gaps. A strong travel roster means committed pitching and real lineups every weekend, all summer and fall: steady reps against the best competition he can find. That’s the test that tells you whether the velocity, spin, and bat speed built in training hold up when the other dugout is trying to beat him — and it’s the level he’ll be recruited to play at.

Real game video

Coaches don’t just want a bullpen clip — they want to watch him compete: at-bats against live arms, innings with runners on, how he responds after a mistake. That footage only exists in real games, and travel season is where most of it happens. Film the games, clip the best innings and at-bats, and that becomes the video in the recruiting emails when the clock turns at 16.

Built around school ball

Travel ball fills the summer and fall gaps — it never competes with the high school season. Protect the arm, coordinate with his school coach, and pick the program for its competition level and its coaching, the same way you’d pick a private instructor. A team chosen for who he’ll face develops him. A team chosen for its “exposure” branding is a showcase with more weekends.

Travel ball is not the showcase circuit. A showcase sells one weekend of being watched. A travel season is months of real games with a real team — the competition develops him whether or not a coach ever sees a single clip, and the clips it produces are the backbone of his recruiting video. That’s why it earns its place in the budget while showcases on their own don’t. It’s also where the honors came from: my son’s 12 Perfect Game All-Tournament selections were all earned in travel tournament games — the development was real and on the record years before the first recruiting email was ever sent.

Run your own numbers

The showcase math

Perfect Game showcases run about $795 a weekend; a college’s own camp runs about $125 (the example pair from our kit). College coaches don’t work the showcase circuit the way brochures imply — they recruit their camps and their inboxes. Put your family’s numbers in and see what the same money buys the other way.

Travel, hotels, and “verified” add-ons not included — they only widen the gap.

$3,975

That’s what the showcase route costs — for weekends where no coach on your list is obligated to watch a single pitch.

The same money buys 31 camps at schools on your target list — 31 live evaluations by the actual decision-makers, each one set up by a personal email with video.

Or skip ahead: it’s more than double what a full season of trusted individual training costs many Georgia families.

The workbook

The DIY Outreach Kit

The Two Clocks System lives in one spreadsheet — ten tabs, every formula working, the method baked in. The split is simple: 3 tabs free — 7 more in the full kit. Tabs 1–3 are the free preview; every tab after Tab 3 is included in the full kit. The starter download below, including the full Timeline & Checklist, is yours right now. The full ten-tab kit is $39.95, and the current release is Version 1.1 — and what the full kit unlocks is the data nobody else hands you: every verified 2026 target-school camp and every Southeast college coach, researched and ready, in Tabs 4 and 8 below — plus a separate 2027 School Camps tab (Tab 9) already populating now, with 2 verified camps so far, and the Video Examples shot list in Tab 5.

Calendar check: D2 coaches have one short dead period (Nov 9–11); D3 and JUCO coaches have no dead, quiet, or shutdown periods. The Nov 24–29 recruiting shutdown is D1 only — and every coaching office goes dark over Thanksgiving, so first emails land best the week of Nov 30.
Tab 1

Start Here

15-minute setup, The Two Clocks System up front, and a live dashboard: schools, emails, replies, overdue follow-ups, camps, and your spend split.

Tab 2

Timeline & Checklist

The two clocks as a 10-step checklist. Training at 10–16, recruiting at 16 — and showcases aren’t a step on it: they’re a complement to the steps, not a substitute for them.

Tab 3

School Tracker

A 15–20 school pipeline with coach contacts and stages. Follow-up dates flag themselves OVERDUE so silence never goes unanswered by accident.

Tab 5Included in full kit

Video Examples

The shot list for the video coaches actually watch — pitching, hitting, and fielding clips, plus running: timed home-to-first and second-to-home runs. A clip log tracks every take, so the film you send is the film you meant to send.

Tab 6Included in full kit

Email Templates

Initial, pre-camp, and follow-up emails built around what a D3 coach scans for: major, measurables, GPA, video with the gun in frame.

Tab 7Included in full kit

Outreach Log

Every email, camp, and conversation in one row each, with the next step written down before you close the laptop.

Tab 10Included in full kit

Spend Tracker

Every dollar logged against one question — did it start a coach conversation? Showcase vs. school-camp totals, side by side.

Southeast recruiting headcount

Estimated

The roster math across the programs in the Coaches Directory — how many players sit on Southeast rosters, and how many new spots open up each year.

DivisionThe mathOn rostersNew spots / year
D2 66 Southeast programs × ~47 players average roster ~3,100 players on rosters ~775 new spots per year
D3 18 Southeast programs × ~43 players average roster ~775 players on rosters ~195 new spots per year
JUCO 80 Southeast programs × ~31 players average roster ~2,480 players on rosters ~1,240 new spots per year
Total 164 Southeast programs ~6,350 players on rosters ~2,200 new spots per year

Program counts are from the Two Clocks Coaches Directory; roster averages are national averages; and new spots per year are estimated by roster turnover — NCAA programs over 4 years, JUCO over 2 years. These are estimates, not official Southeast counts.

The proof

We just lived it.

My son is a freshman pitcher at a Division III college. His recruiting file contains no service contracts and no showcase receipts — it contains trusted local coaching from age 12–16, a target list built on fit, personal emails with video, and camps at the schools on that list. It ended with a presidential scholarship (academic merit) and a roster spot for my son. Using this method, my son had multiple offers from D2 and D3 schools.

And the development clock is still running: his August Trackman bullpen sat 84.4 mph with a curveball spinning at 2,776 rpm — his out pitch. Eight weeks into fall ball, the fastball is currently at 87 this fall, with a knuckle curve and slider really spinning, and he’s getting the ball in scrimmages every week — three strikeouts in a one-inning outing in mid-October.

His Perfect Game tournament record is that development, measured. PG first clocked his fastball in June 2020; across six travel seasons it climbed 26 mph, and PG verified him at 86 mph along the way. The tournaments produced 16 PG awards — 12 All-Tournament Team selections from 12U through 17U, a Series Classic selection, two Preseason All-American honorable mentions — every one earned in real games with his travel teams, none of it at a showcase.

But honors don’t recruit anybody — no award was going to put him on a roster. The roster spot and the scholarship came from the other clock: a target list built on fit, personal emails with video, and camps at the schools themselves, where the coaches who make the decisions saw him in person. Recruiting isn’t a résumé. It’s a match.

And the other half of his file was academic — at D3, that’s where the money is. He carried a 3.95 GPA, was elected to the National Beta Club in 2024 for outstanding character and achievement, and was named his county’s Player of the Month as a senior. The presidential scholarship is academic merit: the grades and the character record behind them are what made it possible. A live arm attached to a 3.95 and that kind of file is recruitable — that’s exactly the match the showcase world can’t see.

A current D3 college coach, on the order he recruits in: 1. Academics, 2. Character / good teammate, 3. Talent level. Talent is third — not first. That's why the list starts with the school, not the stadium.

Nothing on this page is theory. It’s a field report.

The tournament record — Perfect Game, 2019–2025

  • +26 mphFastball velocity gained since PG’s first reading in June 2020 — built across six travel seasons
  • 16Perfect Game awards on his profile
  • 12×All-Tournament Team — from 12U in 2019 through 17U in 2025, at PG invitational tournaments across Georgia
  • 2×Preseason All-American Honorable Mention, Southeast Region — 2025 Underclass and 2026
  • 86 mphPG-verified fastball — the “FB 85 Plus” badge
  • +2.89mph of max barrel speed gained at the plate since July 2020
  • +1.77impact momentum gained at the plate over the same span
  • +3.30 Gsmax acceleration gained at the plate over the same span

Plus a Series Classic selection at 13U in 2021. Every honor was earned in real tournament games with his travel teams. None of it came from a showcase.

The classroom half — where the D3 money is

  • 3.95High school GPA — the number the academic presidential scholarship was paid on
  • 2024Elected to the National Beta Club, for outstanding character and achievement
  • 2026Named his county’s Player of the Month as a senior, in April of his senior season

At D3, the money is academic. The grades and the character record weren’t a side note to the baseball file — they were half the recruiting package, and the half that paid.

Professional headshot of Brett Goodheart, founder of Two Clocks Baseball
Brett Goodheart — the dad behind the field report.

Meet the founder

About Brett

Brett Goodheart spent 27 years as a director-level leader in wireless telecommunications, running large-scale site acquisition, development, and construction programs for companies including Boost Mobile/Dish Wireless, SAC Wireless/Nokia, Ericsson, and SBA Network Services — leading teams of 10 to 125 people across multi-state regions and managing multimillion-dollar buildouts, including the first 5G Open RAN deployment of its kind.

But the project that mattered most ran on a different clock. For 12 years, Brett raised his son in baseball. He coached him at 6U and again at 13U, and from age 12 on came the travel-ball seasons: the practices, the road trips, the coach emails, the camps, and finally the recruiting process that landed his son at a Division III program on an academic scholarship.

Two Clocks Baseball is what he built from that journey. Now retired, Brett has made it his new project in life: helping other families navigate college baseball recruiting at the sub-D1 level — D2, D3, and JUCO — so the next family doesn’t have to figure it out the expensive way.

Off the field and off the clock: a longtime Atlanta Braves fan, a devoted father, and an avid golfer.

Work with us

Consultations — priced well below market price

We researched what this help actually costs: single consults in the marketplace typically run $130–$275, structured packages $500–$1,200, and full-service outfits $1,500–$4,500 — when they publish prices at all. NCSA doesn’t. We do — well below market price.

And the system is DIY by design — that’s part of the doctrine, not a shortcut. You make the contacts, you keep the tracker, you do some of the lifting yourself. That’s exactly why the price is virtually half what a done-for-you service would charge: you keep the savings — because enough has already been spent on training and travel. I lived that myself. Showcases have their place — and when a family chooses that route, this system is the perfect complement to it: the target list, the emails, and the follow-up that turn a weekend of being seen into actual coach conversations.

Step 1 · The foundation

The Kit — $39.95

Everything starts with the DIY Outreach Kit checklist — currently Version 1.1, with every update bumping the version number. Buy it, fill it in, and you own The Two Clocks System — most families stop here, and that’s fine.

Step 2 · The guided walkthrough

Game-Plan Call — $120

45 minutes with me going over your checklist in detail — every tab, every line — so the plan in it is the right one for your kid.

Step 3 · Build on it

Deeper help, same document

Camp Strategy, List + Outreach Review, and Season Support all build on the checklist — it stays the working document for everything after.

40% below market

Parent Game-Plan Call

45 minutes with me, going over your kit checklist in detail — where your kid sits on the two clocks, whether his school list is realistic, where the money is leaking. Walk away with a plan, not a pitch.

  • 45 minutes, one call
  • Three decisions made: which clock he’s on, where the money leaks, and the next three moves — in order
  • We close with the next step, the kit tab it lives in, and its date

Market ~$200

$120
40% below market

Camp Strategy Session

Working from your checklist: which school camps, in what order, and the pre- and post-camp email plan around each one — the sequence that turns a camp day into a coach relationship.

  • One 45 mins call
  • Your 15–20 school list matched against the coaches directory and the verified camps
  • Camp order, plus an email-before and email-after plan for each camp
  • Advice and sequence only — I don’t build or maintain your calendar; your dates live in your kit checklist

Market ~$250

$150
47% below market

Season Support

Junior-year guidance across list, outreach, and camps — a full season of The Two Clocks System with your checklist as the working document and us in your corner, at half of NCSA territory.

  • One calendar year from signup — payable in 2 payments of $400
  • 6 scheduled calls, 45 mins each: list, outreach, camps, and the decision
  • Review of up to 3 outreach waves, plus the cost decision at the end
  • No calendar work — you own your dates in the kit
  • I never contact coaches on your behalf

Market ~$1,500

$800

January consult reservations open with the kit sale — the full kit drops in a few days — story's free, the system's the kit — payment runs through our standard booking link, and families who start with the free preview get first access to the calendar.

Straight answers

Questions parents actually ask

My son is in 8th grade. Should we be doing showcases?

No. At 10–16 he’s on the development clock: individual training with a trusted coach, strength, and reps. The recruiting clock starts at 16, in 10th grade — not sooner — and development keeps running right through it. A showcase at 13 buys a t-shirt and a “ranking” no college coach will ever look up.

Do college coaches really ignore Perfect Game showcases?

Not entirely — showcases have their place: verified numbers, and for a truly projectable arm, real exposure. But for most D2, D3, and JUCO recruiting, the coaches who would actually roster your son aren’t working off showcase reports — they’re watching their own camps and opening personal emails. That’s the consistent story from parents on r/Homeplate, and it’s confirmed by a D3 pitching coach in the niche’s most-upvoted thread: service and showcase traffic gets filtered; a personal email with video gets opened.

Is travel ball just another money trap?

No — and the distinction matters. A showcase is a pay-to-be-seen weekend: no team, no season, no stakes. Travel ball is a season of real games played around the high school schedule, and it earns its money two ways: high-level competition every weekend, which is where development gets tested, and game film — the at-bats and innings against strong competition that become the video in his recruiting emails. Choose the program for its level of play and coaching, not its exposure branding.

What exactly goes in the first email to a coach?

Five things, in this order: his intended major, height/weight, his key measurable (velo for a pitcher), GPA, and a short video link — radar gun in frame for pitchers. Then name the school’s camp you’ll attend. The kit’s templates are built word-for-word around that scan.

Is D3 a consolation prize?

Ask the roster math instead: one D3 carried 110 players into the fall — spots are earned there too. And the money can be real: my son’s presidential scholarship is academic merit at a school that fits him, with a coaching staff that recruited him. Fit plus real aid beats a famous logo and a bench.

When do D3 offers actually happen?

Later than the D1 folklore says — which is exactly why starting the recruiting clock at 16 works. Sophomore year builds the list and the relationships; school camps through junior year do the evaluating. Families who panic and buy exposure in 8th grade are paying to be early to a timeline that doesn’t exist.

Why isn’t the full kit free?

Because the funnel should be honest: 3 tabs are free — Tabs 1–3, the starter tracker — so you can see exactly how The Two Clocks System works before you spend a dime. The other 7 tabs are included in the full kit at $39.95, one flat price, no subscription — and three of them are the research itself: the 2026 School Camps tab (57 verified camps across six Southeast states — 18 JUCO, 29 D2, and 10 D3 — with dates and published costs from $50–$450, and every camp for players ages 12 and up, no little-kid camps), the separate 2027 School Camps tab — Tab 9, already populating now with 2 verified camps so far (Berry College, January 9 and August 14, 2027, $225) and growing as 2027 camps are announced and verified — and the Coaches Directory (all 164 Southeast D2/D3/JUCO programs, head coaches named, 129 published coach emails, 134 published phone numbers, verified October 2026 and refreshed monthly). Video Examples rounds it out: the shot list for pitching, hitting, fielding, and running video — including timed home-to-first and second-to-home clips — with a clip log. That’s the hunting most families do school by school, weekend after weekend — done for you. The kit works DIY by design: we provide the system and the information, and you make the direct contacts yourself — which keeps you in control of every conversation and up to date on where things stand — instead of paying an overpriced service to do it for you. And that’s exactly why the price is virtually half what a done-for-you service would charge: you do some of the lifting yourself and keep the savings — because enough has already been spent on training and travel. I lived that myself. Some families will still want a second set of eyes — a game-plan call, an outreach review — and that’s what the consultations are for, priced well below market price.

How do kit updates work — and what about 2027 camps?

Every release carries a version number — the kit is at Version 1.1 now, and every update bumps that number. Tab 9 is the separate 2027 School Camps tab — and it is already populating now, not sitting empty: 2 verified camps so far, Berry College’s Advanced Skills / Prospect Camp on January 9, 2027 and August 14, 2027 ($225, grades 9–12 plus JUCO / portal transfers), with more added as schools announce them and each one is verified. The checklist is a download on purpose: to capture an update, come back to the kit section and download the latest version — if the version shown there is higher than the one stamped at the top of your file, grab the new one.

What if I want a refund?

The DIY kit is refundable in full within 7 days of purchase — email twoclocksbaseball@gmail.com with your order number. After 7 days, refunds are case by case. A consult fee is refunded in full if a paid consult doesn’t happen; once a consult has been held, the fee is earned. Season Support can be cancelled anytime, stopping the second payment, with unused calls refunded pro rata.

How long do I have access to the kit?

Your purchase includes free updates and re-downloads for 3 years from purchase, covering the 16–18 recruiting window. After 3 years, update and re-download access ends.

Start on the right clock.

That’s The Two Clocks System. Download the starter tracker, run your showcase math, and put this season’s money where coaches actually look: training now, camps and personal emails at 16.

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