Cody Perrine '16 Recruiting Profile

3/29/16  My name is Cody Perrine, Mount Si High School, Snoqualmie, Washington, class of 2016, current GPA 3.75 (National Honors). I am interested in attending a technical college and being a part of a competitive schools baseball program.

Why Me and what makes me different: 

I am the starting 2nd baseman on my Mount Si High School varsity (Now we are 6-0 this season and ranked 1014 in the nation, 4th in the state) and middle infielder for my select team (Boys of Summer, Bellevue, WA).  With my speed, 3.58 sec to 1st base, 6.9 sec 60 yds, I also play centerfield. I am a classic leadoff hitter with speed having only 35K’s in my last 450 plate appearances, 101 runs scored and 58 SBs.  From the 2014 Baseball Northwest SPARQ testing for the Pacific Northwest five state region, I was ranked 5th at 2nd base, 7th at shortstop out of all the 2016 graduates and 14 at 2nd base out of over 1200 total players in the Pacific Northwest.

My key strengths are:  SPEED, DEFENSE, and ABILITY TO GET ON BASE and GENERATE RUNS. 

As a student athlete, I was the starting guard in basketball and set school sprinting records in track but baseball has become my sport and I train year round to prepare for each season of baseball including strength training with a dedicated baseball core program.  I also try to give back to our community by volunteering my time assisting with Special Olympics in basketball, soccer, and bowling.  I also volunteer at our local food bank helping in our community.

A Baseball Lesson:

“You learn little from victory, but you learn everything from defeat”. The sign hung in my bedroom since I was in grade school. Nice picture, silly message.

I got thrown out to end the inning and the game. My team was counting on me to score the tying run, but I just let them down. It was hard to comprehend. I was preparing to steal the next base, and yet there I lay in the dirt, trying to disappear beneath the base, feeling embarrassed, upset, and foolish. The fundamental of the game - don’t get picked off at first base – had completely escaped me. Pulling myself off the ground and walking slowly across the diamond, I could hear my coach, a hulk of a man who used to crush home runs as a major league baseball player, calling me out as the reason our team had lost. I drowned out the other team’s cheers as I replayed what just happened over and over again in my head. I will forever be “that guy that lost the game”.

After all this training - exercising at the gym four times a week, endless hitting in the cages, and incessant working on drills – unbelievable! I was so physically prepared for the season. The question now seemed to be, was I mentally prepared? I had spent all my energy tuning my body, but I had forgotten that this game is ninety percent mental.  Physical mistakes are part of the game, and everyone makes them, but mental errors are all about you and your readiness.  Mental toughness is more important for success than physical strength. Physical mistakes can be easily fixed. Mental mistakes can escalate into tragedies if you let them. If your mind is not prepared, how can you expect your physical attributes to carry your body across the finish line, let alone to victory?

Although I could not look up, I could feel my teammates stare and sense their heads shaking in disbelief. I was humiliated. How am I going to face them again? Maybe I could just quit or find another team to play on! If I stayed on the team, my coach would scorn me and make me ride the bench for many games to come. The weight of my self-pitting was quickly becoming very heavy.

But wait, I have seen others make mental errors, yet I don’t blame them for losing. Sure it can make you angry, but you better check that emotion at the door. On a team everyone contributes and celebrates a win, so there is never just one incident that causes a loss. So why am I beating myself up so badly? Because you just lost the game, pal!  Pity party again. I couldn’t let this mistake bring me down. I had to come back at full force and perform to the best of my ability.

The next day at the next game, I slowly approached the team to start warm-ups only to find everyone having conversations, laughing, and acting like nothing ever happened. Heck, they even greeted me with a smile. I was surprised how they could forgive me so easily after I spent most of the previous evening mulling over my performance. It’s amazing how a kind word can improve your personal self worth so quickly after a failure. Maybe next time someone makes a mistake, a little understanding on my part will help others get over it as quickly as I did. Mistakes will happen, and this was a reminder that I have to put them behind me. I have to learn from my mistakes, recover, and move on. But most importantly, I need to remember to forgive myself. These are valuable lessons that will be well remembered in my professional life and my relationships in the future.  

“You learn little from victory, but you learn everything from defeat”. Nice picture, great message.

My name is Cody Perrine, Mount Si High School, Snoqualmie, Washington, class of 2016, current GPA 3.73 (National Honors) and I am interested in attending college and being a part of a competitive schools baseball program. My goal is to attend a four year college, play baseball and obtain a marketable degree in the field of science and technology.

I am the starting 2nd baseman on my Mount Si High School varsity and club team (Boys of Summer, Bellevue, WA).  With my speed, 3.58 sec to 1st base, 6.9 sec 60 yds, I can play outfield as well. I am a classic leadoff hitter with speed having only 35K’s in my last 450 plate appearances, 101 runs scored and 58 SBs.  From the Baseball Northwest SPARQ testing for the Pacific Northwest five state region, I was ranked 5th at 2nd base, 7th at shortstop out of all the 2016 graduates and 14 at 2nd base out of over 1200 total players in the Pacific Northwest.

My key strengths are:  SPEED, DEFENSE, and ABILITY TO GET ON BASE and GENERATE RUNS. 

As a student athlete, I was the starting guard in basketball and set school sprinting records in track but baseball has become my sport and I now train year round to prepare for each season.  I do strength training with a dedicated baseball core program and also with a professional boxer in preparation for each season and volunteer my time assisting with Special Olympics in basketball, soccer, and bowling.  I also volunteer at our local food bank helping in our community.

Thanks for looking at my profile and please contact me if you have any questions, I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Please read my updates below.

Update 10/6/14:  I am excited to be called up to the Boys Of Summer (http://www.boysofsummerbbc.org/) 18U select team this year to play 2nd base and I should be the lead off hitter again this season.  I have been working out at NorthCore baseball training facility to increase my strength and I am very happy with the results and training.  I also have been training with Golden Glove turned Profession boxer Michael Gavronski (http://boxrec.com/list_bouts.php?human_id=522845&cat=boxer).  This has been a real experience!!  I am currently working on my hitting at the PAC-12 UW College hitting facility every week with their coaching staff.  Winter workouts start in a month and I am ready to start playing again.  School is going well with all A's and one B+.  SAT and ACT testing later this year.

Update 7/23/14:  This has been a great season as I was the starting shortstop for my high school team and the starting 2nd baseman for my club team.  I am also establishing myself as a relief pitcher and always the lead off batter for every team I have ever played on.  I completed my sophomore year with a 3.95 in my final semester.  I continue to keep busy working out, playing tournament baseball and volunteering as an assistant coach for Special Olympics as well as help at the local food bank.  

Updated 11/27/13:  I am proud to say I have been accepted to the National Honors Society due to my high school grades.  Also I am on track to hit 25,000 balls before the start of high school. 

Updated 10/16/13: With the 2014 season approaching, I am looking forward to baseball already as I have started winter workouts and continue my physical strength training.  I am looking to advance my skills as middle infielder and pitcher. I am currently involved in infield training with several college players/coaches in a clinic held at Seattle University. I will start one on one pitching training after the first of the year.

This season I will be playing select baseball for the Boys of Summer in Bellevue Washington.  Boys of Summer is an excellent program as exhibited by some of their alumni currently playing in the Major Leagues including Orioles ace Jason Hammel, former Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, and Indians utility man Brent Lillibridge.

Our High School Team is once again favored to place very well next year in the state tournament,  Mt Si High School has won the King County 3A Championship three years in a row and finished 1st, 4th, and 4th in state the past three years.  My goal is to be a starter on the JV team and get pulled up to varisty sometime before the end of the season.  Hard Work and Dedication!

Update 8/1/13: Wanted to share so 2013 season highlights.  Our select team placed 2nd in the Washington State USSSA State tournament where we got to play in the Seattle Mariners Rainer Stadium.  What a great experience.  It was a long fun seasons where I played 109 games between High School and select.  We were a 600 Team in High School and we went 60 and 27 in our select team.  We competed in the XTreme Diamond World Series in San Diego in July and finish 5th place.  We had a great run and I personally had a very good tournament hitting 480 and pitching for a win in one game. 

Update 6/13/13:  I received the Cy Young award for my high school baseball team for 2013 season.

June 2013: I am completing my freshman year at Mount Si High School as a started on the 9th grade team. I was then later called up to play on the JV team for part of the season. My focus on grades has been critical to allow me to play in sports and I have kept a 3.7 GPA. I have played two years under the training of former Seattle Mariner Bucky Jacobsen and now play on a highly competitive Pacific Northwest Select team that travels all over the western US for tournament play.