Keep your eye on the ball, catch, pitch, run. This is all junior Brady Capps has known for the ten consecutive years he’s been playing baseball. While he wasn’t initially interested in it at first, after his parents signed him up for it at Palma Ceia little leagues he’s been playing ever since. Capps has been on varsity baseball since his freshman year of high school; he’s now in his junior year, and still going strong. Currently Capps is a catcher and, in the past, has played third base, pitcher, outfield and first base.

During elementary school, Capps played soccer and basketball but always found himself going back to baseball and even went on to join a travel team before high school. Capps definitely does want to continue his baseball journey after high school but is still undecided.

“My teammates would describe me as a leader and hopefully respectful. I don’t know where I want to go for college, but I do want to play baseball,” Capps said.

Around the ages 12 to 13 is when Capps felt he needed to really start getting serious about baseball and felt he could actually pursue this long term.

“Sitting on the bench my freshman year really made me realize how hard it was to separate myself from the thousands of college level players in Hillsborough County” Capps said.

Capps whole perspective shifted when he got to high school, and knew he really had to start taking baseball seriously and did everything he could to use baseball as his way into college.

“I definitely think that Brady has the ability to play in college and then from there I think he has the ability to put himself in a position to play pro. He has all the physical tools, his mental side of the game is improving literally game by game, week by week,” baseball Coach Alexander Barron said.

Currently, Capps has been practicing every week and is currently averaging a .419 for batting and so far, has 18 hits for the season. Aside from practicing every day at Robinson, Capps goes to the gym almost every day, practices his swing on his own on the weekends and goes hitting on Mondays if they don’t have a game.

“Brady is one of the hardest working people I’ve ever met, but that’s what’s different about him,” teammate Maddox Thomas (’24) said. “He doesn’t work hard just to work hard, he does it because he loves it, and baseball is his idea of fun. I think it is highly likely that he could play at any level of baseball he wants to.”