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@jurisdonut :
If your kid isn’t hitting tennis balls, pecans, or beans in the back yard every day without you asking, they have no business being in a “travel,” “all stars,” or “blah blah blah” league.
They are absolutely not going pro at 8-10. They are emphatically not going pro between 11-18 (in the U.S.), and they are not, statistically, going to play in high school or college anyways.
If you want your kid to be good enough to achieve anything in baseball after the age of 14, let them swing and just play. Let them play against anyone and everyone—good, bad, local, older, younger, doesn’t matter just let them play the game. The less “elite coaches” the better because half of them are not “elite” in any regard. But most importantly, don’t cage your kids to “elite” travel ball teams when they don’t do elite practice.
Calvin from accounting isn’t going to give your kids the reps and practice necessary to get better. Why waste the money and your kids confidence only to come to the same conclusion—they are not going to make it to the bigs (statistically) without something huge and surely without natural talent. The latter is only available to those who play the game naturally.
My son is in Coach Pitch All-Stars and the amount of drama has been wild. The idea of Coach Pitch All-Stars is already silly because 75% of this game is whether or not Calvin from accounting can throw a strike from a little league mound (he can't).
@jurisdonut@YeahISedIt_54 Had a guy on my team in college we called Bigger Country. A first baseman who was a massive corn fed man at 18 and wore these gloves. He crushed…