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Signing "contracts" is somewhat of a wasted effort. If a player breaches the contract, our remedy is to sue the player (and I am a recovering/retiring attorney), but that's really extreme. If a kid wants to leave for whatever reason, you might as well just move on. We try to talk to players leaving for less than obvious reasons (such as injuries, pitch counts, academic obligations), and some have stayed, but at times you just wish them well and be thankful you get the unis back.   It comes with the territory. It's a truism of summer ball that the team you start with is not the one you finish with.  This is weird: we started our team in the Valley League 11 years ago. We won 10 games, out of 44, our first summer. Not a single player left early. And we didn't have a  single game rained out.   The odds of either of those two things are huge.

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