[quote]Samplaysbaseball wrote:
[quote]pwolves17 wrote:
Hey Sam, sorry to hear your shoulder is giving you issues man! I can definitely relate. I had a play my junior year in high school where our shortstop had a throw sail up the line, I came off the bag at first and swipe tagged the runner, but had him pretty much run through my arm. Terrible pain at the time and had to miss a couple games, but never got an official diagnosis. It got better over time and I was able to play my whole college career without too many issues, but it’s definitely affected my lifting at times.
Still can’t do much overhead pressing without being in pain for days afterwards. I’m playing in an adult wood bat league this summer and seem to be holding up pretty well, so hoping that’ll continue! How’d your first season go? Sorry if I missed some posts about it already, hadn’t looked at your log for awhile[/quote]
Thanks for checking in! I haven’t posted much about baseball lately.
That was my biggest fear playing with the shoulder injury!!! I was afraid id tag someone out and my shoulder would be toast. Luckily it didn’t happen
We went 21-23 as a first year program which is pretty impressive I think. For me, the season went alright. I had a lot of fun thigh Batted .263 with an .423 on base percentage. Only got 26 plate appearances and 19 at bats. I started 6 games and played in about one-third of them. I was a pinch hitter for much of the season. I was good at it (had success 4/5 of the times I was used in the role) but it’s not something that gets you a lot of AB’s. I want to either get the full time DH role or start at first moving forward. [/quote]
Nice man! Sounds like a really solid season and great start for the program. I spent my first two seasons in college in a similar role to that, pinch hitting and late inning defense at first base. Of course I wanted to be in the lineup every day, but I honestly got addicted to the adrenaline rush of pinch hitting and of knowing I’d get a chance in a high pressure situation! Keep at it and I’m sure you’ll earn that starting job next year.
As far as your question about macros, I’d look at increasing your protein and fat intake and lowering carbs, especially with your decreased activity level. I’d probably go somewhere around 14 kcal/lb bw, which would be 2,560 calories for you right now. Could break it down to 230 p, 75 f, 240 c. Toss a cheat meal or two in each week and you should be fine in terms of hunger levels and muscle rentention until you can start training again.