@2022NYC posted:How competitive is the HS baseball team? Does it have freshman, JV and Varsity teams? Some schools cut a lot of travel players due to the size of the talent pool. Being a top of the lineup hitter is great, can he consistently turn on a mid 80s fb?
This is a very large high school in a community where baseball is EXTREMELY popular and varsity team is generally quite competitive. Last year they were in the state finals. HS always fields frosh/frosh-soph/JV/varsity teams every single year - we are told freshman simply are not even considered for the varsity team. Some freshman will not make any team this year, many sophomores, and even more juniors and seniors will not make a team this year. Since we understand this to be the way it is, he will do his best, likely make a team other than varsity 
, and continue to develop and play travel, as well.
School ball is new to us, as there is no middle school baseball team. Locally, it is either house league, part-time travel, or full-time travel as a youth player up through 14U ball. From what we hear, the full-time travel he's been exposed to is likely more competitive than many of the school teams he will face. He's not had difficulty with any fb. Happy to share a clip privately if anyone is truly curious.