2019Dad posted:c2019 posted:2019Dad posted:c2019 posted:mmm1531 posted:
I'll go with the short kid in the back! If he's flippin the bird here, he loses the vote.. The kid in front of him with the chew in is my second guess..
Ding, mmm1531 your are correct wow, on the first try, the short kid in the back, hes not flipping the bird lol
I was wrong when I first saw this team I thought some of the others kids were going to do great and get better and faster, they did get bigger ,but bigger doesn't mean fast of stronger or have the passion to be great. i like what consultant says about the 6th tool , and I think that's the big difference , the kids who were bigger at younger ages just peak early and didn't improve. in fact some of them didn't even make the HS team as a underclassmen and some dont play anymore . and the one you picked was the biggest underdog of all, he use to bat last in the line up never play ss .catcher 3B and only play 3-4 inns a game. But the will to get better and prove everyone wrong has got him to where he is today. Also his dad never listen the naysayers and always encouraged his son up.
that is correct you cant project someone by a picture, but more and more people talk about projections and its all about size. take Tom Brady for instance, he had to prove everyone wrong. just my 2 cents .
Everyday as adults we are judge or should I say projected to do something good or bad. have a great day.
Question for you: you said an 11U team in 2011 -- that would be 16U in 2016 -- and that it was a "mix of class of 2017,18, and 19's" . . . so was that little guy playing up a level or two?
2019 DAD ,
Yes he was playing up. and is currently playing 16u
That's a big deal -- in my experience, people regularly underestimate the impact of age. The fact that he was 10 and hanging with 11 year olds was very predictive of future development.
In the prepubescent years a kid may be physically plus or minus three years of his chronological age. So a preteen playing up a year isn't a big deal.