The problem is a lot of the best athletes on a team (well at least the right handed ones!) will play shortstop. Well if they all tried out for SS then you'd be passing up a lot of good athletes as you would only carry 4 to 8 Shortstops. Many of these kids might be better then most of the 2B or 3B that try out at those positions. I guess as long as you guys take that into consideration when selecting your teams then it isn't an issue. If not then ya, maybe you need to lump the infielders (excluding first baseman)all together for tryout purposes. If your #9 rated SS can rake and play a decent SS then maybe you'd be prudent to seeing if he'd move to 3rd or 2nd over a lesser hitter who just happened to tryout at second. Just my 2 cents.