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Real situation.  Travel ball coach pressured him to pitch in Dec/Jan/Feb, but he chose to rest the arm and ramp back up with his high school team for the season. High school team is giving more practice opportunities, much-needed camaraderie during covid, and the opportunity to be a team leader. Things got negative with travel ball coach, so I’m trying to figure out if my son broke some unwritten rule.

More and more travel orgs are trying to squeeze in those MLK tournaments now and some even in early February. My son's HS team had a few kids play MLK weekend and miss the first practice. They are D1 commits. Their travel coach limited them to 50 pitches so there wasn't a huge injury risk.

I suppose if a really strong travel program wanted my son to play we'd consider it during Dec/Jan/Feb, but doing so he would miss several workouts, pitching/hitting/catching lessons, and probably most importantly some down time from games and travel.

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