Keep it fun. I see a lot of kids who have been moved from team to team, never get to develop relationships and feel part of something and quit loving it. Baseball sucks a lot of time and the things they miss have to be replaced with something more than stats. My son missed a lot of birthday parties, and activities because of baseball but he also played with a bunch of the same boys from the time he was 8 until he was 17. They weren't a power team, but they were his best friends (still are) and their parents were our great friends. Nights hanging out in the hotel lobby, kids running all over the place, playstation set up in the rooms. Whiffle ball in the parking lots. They are summers that I wouldn't trade for anything. And he still made the hs team and still got recruited
