"A Day In The Life Of... Merritt Beeker (D1 Commit to ECU) Left Handed Pitcher

What's up guys, my name is Merritt Beeker. I'm a senior at North Davidson High School. I'm a left-handed pitcher and I'm committed to East Carolina University, and this is a day in the life of me. A typical game day for me looks like I like to wake up pretty early, so I'm always up around 7 30, 8 o'clock. I'll get some breakfast, my go-to breakfast, usually two scrambled eggs, some sausage, and maybe a little bit of bacon. After that I like to, say the game's like at two or three o'clock in the afternoon, after breakfast I like to go get a little bit of like an auxiliary workout in, like not nothing too heavy, nothing crazy, but just to get the body moving, get some blood flowing and stuff like that. Then after that for lunch I'll probably go every game day I like to have chick-fil-a. I like to get the grilled nuggets and fruit cups and all that before I pitch anything, so I'll usually do that, it's kind of like my thing. Then I'll come back, get to the field probably an hour, hour and a half early, start getting my band and stretching in, start doing my plyo balls and stuff like that, just get mentally prepared for the game. I first got into baseball at like the age of three. I started playing t-ball really early, my dad was a coach and like growing up I just always loved baseball and we've just been a baseball family my whole life, so I started playing pretty early and just fell in love with the game from there. I chose ECU over other programs, I just loved the place, it felt like the right place for me. I loved the coaches, the coaches were great, that was one of the biggest influences for me whenever deciding like the guys at ECU, the coaches at ECU, they really like do a great job and I love everything that they're doing with the program. And also like you can't beat the environment up at East Carolina, the fans are great, I can't wait to play there, it'll be great. What's up guys, I'm Hype and I had to jump in this video real quick to tell you about a giveaway I'm doing on my Instagram page. I'm giving away a pair of cleats to one subscriber to the channel, all you have to do is subscribe to the channel you're on right now, follow me on Instagram, comment two people under that post and you'll be automatically entered into the giveaway. Once this channel gets to 5,000 subscribers, I'll be giving away a pair of cleats, so good luck. Four sets of 15. Being committed to a D1 school, I really don't feel a whole lot of pressure. I actually love having the pressure on me, I mean I feel like I thrive under that. I feel like especially in high school, you're held to a higher standard whenever you're playing, especially being committed to a D1 school, so I think that like you still, even though you're committed, you still got to go out and perform. My greatest strength that I bring to the game is I'm very competitive and I'm also pitching like everything that I throw moves, like even the fastball, so that that's really helpful for me because I get a lot of movement on all of my pitches and it works out in my favor. And then my greatest weakness, I tend to get in my head a little bit, so I feel like I need to work on that a little bit, even like if I make a bad pitch, just forget about it, move on to the next one and just keep getting after it. My game day ritual is like I said in one of the other questions, I get a Chick-fil-a before every game, like I get the grilled nuggets every time. I've been doing that for like a little over a year now and it's just my thing now. I kind of made it into my thing, that's my ritual. I think the transition from baseball just being like a fun game to having to take it a lot more serious was the transition from middle school to high school baseball. Whenever I came into high school, like it was a lot more serious. The guys around you are taking it a lot more seriously, like your future really depends on how you do in high school. So making that jump from middle school to high school is definitely whenever I saw a change in the perspective you got to have on playing. My top three favorite players in the league right now are Garrett Cole, Clayton Kershaw, and Tyler Glasnell. Started the day off up at the high school, got some good stretching in, did some plyo ball, got a good long toss in, get the arm loose, then went down, threw a bullpen, then came from there. Here at the gym, got a good workout in, started out with some kettlebell swings, then hit some weighted pull-ups, got some sledgehammer, and did some sled work. Then we went into some dumbbell rows, some band stuff, then got into some farmer carries and lateral raises and finished up with some shoulder mobility and an ab circuit. And that's been a day in the life of me.