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Gee thats a shocker! No really, my son once played for a tournament coach that thought speed was, by far, the number one thing. He stated, " I want to create havock on the basepaths!" He would have boys with a .400+ batting average, that were team leaders for the team in RBI's, average with men on, and on base percentage on the bench while a couple of other boys with a 1 to 2 tens faster speed in the 60 (we're talking about 7.2's vs. 7.4's and 7.5's here) played and turned in their .200 batting averages. Then he couldn't figure out why the team was only a 50/50 type team and couldn't score runs. These .200 batting kids also had the 2nd & 3rd most errors on the team. One of his relatives lead the team in errors, but in this case he had a good bat, just had a hard time in the infield. The really funny thing, neither of the kids were related to him and other parents on the team couldn't figure it out.
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