We need to draw on the collective wisdom of this group. My son finds himself in a very frustrating and discouraging situation.
Here is the situation. We live in Montana, thus no high school baseball, just the Am Legion program. We have a new Legion coach that does not like my son (as a player. I don't know whether any of this is "personal", to my knowledge my son has not done anything to make the coach dislike him personally.) Although the coach is fully aware that my son is being actively recruited by a DI primarily for his bat rather than his pitching, he has not allowed my son to hit since May 11, when he went 2-3 with 2walks a HR and 4 rbi. The coach took him out of the game and said "five at bats is enough for you!" Since that time, he has only been put in to pinch hit in the last inning when we are down by 10 and the game is basically over.
Here is my question. We have a couple of showcase type events coming up shortly in which we expect to garner some interest. (My son is an '07). We have a player profile sheet which lists the coach's name and phone number. Frankly, I would be petrified to have anyone contact this coach for fear of what the coach would say. I truly believe the coach would attempt to harm my son's chances of playing at the next level.
We have no other baseball options at this time, so we have no real choice but to "tough it out for the remainder of the season."
Do we just remove the coach's contact information from the profile sheet? What do we do about questionaires directed to the coach?
To avert some of the inevitable questions,
1) yes, my son has been seen by the DI coach
2) yes, we have plans for travel/fall ball that will involve playing with a team 4 hours away
I mainly need advice on coach contact/questionaires. I am at a loss here, any suggestions would be welcome.
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