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Originally posted by Coach May:
No I posted facts. Backed up with names and AAU teams played for and HS attended. Ask anyone from NC that watched 12u AAU baseball if they remember Madison Bumgardner. He went in the first round this year. The same can be said of Justin Jackson another first rounder. The fact is the best 12 year olds will make up most of the best 13 year olds. And the best 13 year olds will make up most of the best 14 year olds. And so on and so on. There will be "some" that will not continue to progress. There will be "some" that will come on as they grow and be outstanding players.
Your example is AAU travel players who were handpicked in the first place. There are many LL, Ripken and travel players around the country who peak on the small fields. I've seen kids peak at ten years old. It was the last time they got away with being bigger or stronger. What do a lot of the failures have in common? They're physical early bloomers. These failures stop growing. They go from 12U studs to 14U spuds. Their peers streak by them at fourteen to sixteen years old.
