Hokieone, I'm glad you mentioned the young D3 position player, because that describes my son. Almost no PT in the spring, then a very good summer in a local mostly D3 summer league. So how does he plan for next summer? Going back to the same league will give him plenty of reps, but he'd prefer to see better pitching. Of course there are no guarantees for this spring. I haven't found any leagues that look like the next level up for him anyway (no non-D3 leagues where D3 position players are getting significant ABs.) So his choices seems to be: go back to the same league and make the best of it, or lobby his coach for a recommendation to a lower D1 league (based on one good summer) and risk not getting the reps he needs.