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How a Zoom call landed Stanford’s next baseball phenom [Rintaro Sasaki]

On a February evening, assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator Thomas Eager was contacted by a potential recruit asking to chat via Zoom. Slightly confused and suspecting the worst, Eager and baseball head coach David Esquer hopped on the meeting. 

“I went up and told coach Esquer, ‘Hey, I think this is the Zoom where he tells us he’s going somewhere else,’” Eager recalled. 

After a months-long recruiting process, which included communicating with the player back and forth and thoughtfully hosting his official visit, Eager didn’t know what more he could’ve done. Every effort had been made to show this recruit the unique opportunities Stanford could offer. 

The Zoom call began with the recruit asking questions, which would be unusual if he intended to commit elsewhere. The two coaches tried to read between the lines of each question asked. Esquer sent Eager a text asking, “Are we good?” Eager was unsure of the answer himself.

Then the player broke the news: “I’m coming to Stanford.”

https://stanforddaily.com/2024/08/17/bas...ro-sasaki/

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From the Daily

How a Zoom call landed Stanford’s next baseball phenom [Rintaro Sasaki]

On a February evening, assistant baseball coach and recruiting coordinator Thomas Eager was contacted by a potential recruit asking to chat via Zoom. Slightly confused and suspecting the worst, Eager and baseball head coach David Esquer hopped on the meeting. 

“I went up and told coach Esquer, ‘Hey, I think this is the Zoom where he tells us he’s going somewhere else,’” Eager recalled. 

After a months-long recruiting process, which included communicating with the player back and forth and thoughtfully hosting his official visit, Eager didn’t know what more he could’ve done. Every effort had been made to show this recruit the unique opportunities Stanford could offer. 

The Zoom call began with the recruit asking questions, which would be unusual if he intended to commit elsewhere. The two coaches tried to read between the lines of each question asked. Esquer sent Eager a text asking, “Are we good?” Eager was unsure of the answer himself.

Then the player broke the news: “I’m coming to Stanford.”

https://stanforddaily.com/2024/08/17/bas...ro-sasaki/