Buckeye - our track team has a fair amount of football guys in it as well, but for whatever reason not our better / faster RB or WR's? I like the idea of 2018 doing club track & HS baseball as that seems like it would have the least amount of conflicts. Once track season hits later in spring, HS baseball will no longer have Saturday scrimmages, allowing him to run Club in the weekend USATF meets with no issue. Given the new practice & time limitations placed on HS teams here in California, they really won't be able to get much HS baseball in on weekends, at least not on the non-varsity level. To make HS track & HS baseball work together is going to be a major undertaking that may risk 2018's relationship with his baseball coaches, don't know that its really worth it right now?
A difficult call to make as a parent, especially when the track coaches constantly reinforce that he has a college future in the 200 and long jump. Throw the whole summer travel ball baseball season into the mix, and the reality that he will be competing for a varsity baseball spot as a sophomore so he'll need to stay involved in the schools summer baseball program and it gets that much more convoluted...