I've been training with the coach of our legion team since my sophomore year and played with him the past two years, he has been great with training but we don't exactly mesh on the field which takes some of the fun out of the game for me. This past season was supposed to be a big one for me being our ace but halfway through the season I was replaced in the starting rotation (which wouldn't normally be a problem but it was for missing a practice because I was on vacation and not poor performance) and basically saw limited innings for the rest of the year. This is the first summer I didn't have much fun playing baseball everyday, our team was very poor defensively and could never get much run support out there (I went 0-7 but still had an ERA under 3 to put that in perspective) They're changing it all up by having tryouts this year instead of the HS coaches putting it together and looking to play in winter tournaments that we just wouldn't be competitive in and are geared more towards younger kids rather than seniors, I'm looking to play for a college prep team in my area that one of my teammates played with last year instead of with this legion team, much better competition and a better schedule giving more free time to enjoy my last summer here but I don't know how I can tell my coach without him getting mad (thats basically his first instinct when he doesn't like something, part of why we don't mesh well) the tryouts are coming up next week and he "reminded" me to sign up today on the phone, does anyone have any suggestions on how I can tell him im not playing for them this year? I don't want it to end up turning into a thing that effects my status of training with him but really do not want to play legion again this year. Thank you for any feedback sorry for the long post
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