I know a lot of people that have experienced the politics of HS baseball and was wondering about others experiences. I agree with the assessment of summer baseball being more important than High School baseball. My son plays high school baseball, but the politics of high school ball has lesson his chances of ever being scouted by the pro's. Some of the players fathers are buddies of the coach and the and have made large donations
. My son made the cut but has very little play time. The team is good and has a winning record, but high schools aren't made from the absolute most talented players. Just those that are available to that school. So it doesn't take the absolute best to win a game does it???
I should mention my son was bumped up from Freshman to JV and is only used for his pitching. He plays at most one inning to either get the team out a troubled inning or for the final out. I believe he would have been better off staying at Freshman level were he could bat and have more play time.