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In my area travel/club teams are pretty important in high school, but not a must.  A few freshman kids only played LL/Pony and made the frosh team, but weren't starters.  The hs coaches all knew prior to school starting who the better players are.  Is there an advantage?  Definitely YES.  Some can even argue slight preferential treatment were given to those kids.  If your son is fortunate enough to make the high school team things will start to get a little crazy and intense.  Our path was basically to let our son decide how much baseball he wanted to play (pre high school) as long as grades didn't suffer.  We encouraged multiple sports (he participated in basketball, football, soccer and golf and when his baseball started to increase we gradually eliminated the other sports.  It is during this time my son (and us) got an idea of his drive, discipline, and motivation to play baseball.  You still can't predict how he will compare to others or even if he is college material.  This is the time for him to him to enjoy baseball for what it is, friendship, competition, self discipline, and most importantly just being a fun game.

We've all seen parents who want their kids to play in high school, college, or above yet so many things have to happen.  The kid must have that innate drive to progress to the next level, it isn't something you can learn or be taught.  You can be told what must be done but if the deep motivation isn't there it will only get him so far.

In our area middle school kids are being offered scholarships to attend private high school to play sports, and/or academic.  It stands to reason that if given a baseball scholarship you are an important part of the high school baseball plans.

Good luck in your journey.  It is an enjoyable time to sit back, relax, have fun with your family.  The time flies by so fast!

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