You cannot always see your baseball progress, but that doesn't mean you're not progressing faster than you realize.
For example, a painter shows up to work and paints a wall. At the end of the day he can see exactly what he did. The whole painted wall is there. The work is visible. It's very satisfying.
But you, a baseball player, choose a much less satisfying passion.
You go to the cage. You feel it one day. Your arm feels good. Everything is clicking. You come back the next day and you are in your head, nothing moves right, your metrics are down, and the arm hurts.
Either way, you pack up and leave at the end of the day with no "painted wall"... no obvious proof of your time spent developing yourself that day..
That is the hardest part of baseball development. You can't see it.
I played D1 baseball. But, I was 5'6" and 130 pounds as a freshman in high school. My first ever 60-yard dash time was nine seconds flat as a 14 year old. I emailed college coaches confidently at that size. I lifted every day, ran every day, showed up every day.
I was not benching 300 pounds. I was not running 6.5. I was just showing up.
By the time I was a junior, I was 5'9" and 170 pounds and running a 6.7. I made his varsity team and rode that momentum into a D1 offer.
The progress happened. I just could not see it day to day.
It compounds. That is the whole thing. You put in the work every day and then you look back after a year or two years and you can see it. Not before. Never before.
The tough days are the ones that count the most. The days where nothing is clicking and you show up anyway. Those are the days that separate the player you are from the player you are going to be.
If you want a clear picture of what that process looks like and what to do on the days where you cannot see any progress, Athora Lab's development resources break it down.
The "painted wall"...the proof will be there. You just cannot see it yet.