Unfortunately, my kid's HS team is not doing summer ball this year and he wanted to play this summer. Around here, for HS age players, the only other decent option is Showcase teams. Our main goal was not necessarily to Showcase but to get more game reps and playing experience. We were looking for a team that played all of it's tourneys within driving distance and was an appropriate fit skill wise. I did try to find out as much about showcase teams, and the team/organization we ended up with in particular, prior to signing up with them.
I looked at their rosters from the past few years when they played PG events to get an idea of the level of team and players. I've seen many of the kids play in the past and saw many of them this spring watching my kid's HS V team. I went through many of this teams games on Gamechanger from last summer to see how they divided playing time and positions in the past. PT was pretty evenly distributed and, from what I could tell, kids didn't seem to be playing out of position. Everything looked reasonable.
Just had our first tournament. The roster size was much larger than last year and what the head of the Org promised. Playing time was not even close to evenly distributed. There are a couple of kids that play OF that only got a couple innings for the WHOLE weekend. The roster is made up mostly of IFs so IFs only got 1 to 6 innings a day in a four game weekend.
To top it all off, the coach has a son that plays IF on this team. I had no idea . They have different last names.
How is playing time distributed on reputable teams? Should organizations have an obligation to play a kid at his position? They knew my kid was an IF when he signed up. They're trying to throw convince some of the kids to play OF but I gather they don't see that kid as an OF. They just have too many IFs and the kids that played OF this weekend were weaker players.
Any ideas on what I can do at this point??