So son is just finishing up freshmen highschool baseball season. He worked really hard to make the team, made the upper level of the freshmen team. he didn’t get a lot of playing time, (which is fine we understand) he mostly closing pitched and played second last few innings of games. He performed well while he was in, was able to go into high pressure games as well, hit well as well with the few at bats. It was adjustment for him being the starting pitcher in travel ball and playing every game but he took it in stride and never complained.
the plan was to play this summer on traveling league in summer. Back in the spring we didn’t have coach for summer team or even enough kids but we had 10 kids tryout so we didn’t even know if it was gonna happen. ( don’t even get me started on how the board could just take our out money knowing there was not enough kids for a team. )This is still parent coached most of time, one of parents agreed ( who we don’t know) we heard nothing, nothing from the association board, other than we will hear something after highschool season. We are not signed up for any tournaments ( even though we have paid extra) season is supposed to start in week in half. Highschool ends next week. Our son just heard the grapevine that this summer ball coach added another player to the team. Supposedly a friend of his kids who has never played baseball. There are 13 kids on team. 3 of whom now have never tried out. My DH is livid, the supposed coach can’t send out simple email letting us know the plan for summer ball if we are in tournaments but he can just add his friends to the team ? We have short season as it is here . So now with 13 , 4 kids on bench at all times. My DH thinks we should just pull him and have him spent the summer working out, and training on his own. Because he can already see once again dealing with coach that either A doesn’t know what he is doing or doesn’t care. Really only 5 people from the upper freshmen team were playing summer ball. The better players are multi sport and are doing hockey and football training over summer. Frankly the association should have made this a house team and refunded people’s money back in the spring. So long winded way of asking
is it better to take summer training on own vs being in summer team that you maybe only pitch or play a few games.