quote:If these teams value the kid, they should help prepare them and rest them in the off-season adequately rather than send them to their own personal trainers, train them a couple of times a week rather than require daily or near daily training, and let them play other sports when desired rather than recommending against it.
I think you have to remember that teams that play in the summer and into fall do so because that is when many of the college coaches and recruiters could see the players and do recruit them. Many HS baseball players want to play in college. They nor the travel teams made those rules to live by. It only makes sense that to optimize their chances of playing in college they would play when and where they are going to be seen. If you are really concerned for the "player" and his future then the suggestion maybe that HS baseball should be the thing to go. Would you ever tell one of your players to sit out their Spring HS season to rest up for their summer and fall season so they could be fresh and ready to go, probably not.