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Why you can't be 'realistic' (it’ll ruin your baseball career)

When you’re a child, you dream big.

You wanted to make the MLB.

You wanted to make the MLB All-Star team.

You told everyone, "Yeah, I'm going to be a Hall of Famer one day."

But then reality sets in when you're a teenager and suddenly it's like:

"Yeah, I tried, but that just isn’t realistic."

But here’s the thing:

We need to keep our childlike dreams and curiosity.

Most people give up on their dreams when they're teenagers.

They face some adversity and they pretty much give up.

They never bet on themselves.

When I was 16, I was throwing 78 mph and had dreams of getting to professional baseball.

No college scout was recruiting me at 78 mph.

Everyone would say I should be realistic.

Give up those childlike dreams.

But I kept that voice inside me that said I could do more.

So I went all in.

I trained every single day.

I spent every dollar that I had on coaches and training.

When I was in high school, I worked and all of that went into training.

I wasn't going to buy anything else, you know?

I'd rather spend it on training because I was obsessed with my dream, just like when I was a kid.

After 16 months, I was throwing 94 to 96 miles an hour and got an offer from Stanford.

All because I kept dreaming like that 16-year-old kid who believed anything was possible.

Now I'm 25 and chasing my childhood dream of playing in Japan's professional baseball league.

People ask why I'm still chasing these dreams.

It's because when you give up on your childlike dreams, you give up on the best part of yourself.

That kid inside you who believed in it?

Don’t let him down.

Don't let the world tell you to stop dreaming big.

Keep that curiosity.

Keep those impossible dreams.

I’m rooting for you,

Josh