Lefthook,
I guess I just don't understand this perspective. To me, the question is not "do you want to pitch?" or "where do you want to play?", it is "do you want to play baseball?". He's playing travel ball - if a kid develops a bad attitude for being asked to play a particular position, then I would suggest he doesn't really want to be a baseball player after all. If he were on my team I would suggest to him and his parents that perhaps he should move on.