Hard to say. He was always that player right on the edge of the next level. So he always has been big fish in little pond. This year on this freshmen team, was good for him, he didn’t play as much. When he did play he was able to compete at the higher level. Which was something we always wondered about. Sure he is star pitcher on lower team how will he do against better batters , etc. He was on team this year with some good players which was good experience for him. His downfall is he needs to work on his speed (running) and just general athleticism. He isn’t one of those naturally athletic kids, he has always had to work at it. He has come a long way. He loves pitching, at the previous levels he was the starting pitcher and pitched whole games, when he moved up the level his teammates and coaches were not surprised at all as they never understood why he wasn’t on upper level before. He throws mostly cutters, sinkers, it works for him very well. he just needs to bring his speed up a little more. This year though there two other pitchers that the coach used they were good too. They weren't perfect either, which again was fine with him, he just did his best when he was in. Tried to be ready for when he was needed.
I have no delusions that he is gonna be some superstar. He just wants to keep,playing as long as he can.
next year they go from 2 freshmen teams to one sophomore team.
gonna be real honest DH is definitely thinking of pulling him on principle. Since my son has been playing we have had maybe one decent coach and lots of teams full of “ travel ball players “ that really they all should have just been playing house, which has fine but not if you pay double the price give up every weekend and traveling over and hour 3 nights a week.
when he was younger we took him out of traveling back down to house and it was best decision. He got better , improved his skills then moved back up traveling again and performed much better.
so would you pull your kid from a team if you thought there wasn’t going to be a decent coach or team if you thought they would do better just training on own ?