Reply to "What's the benefits/risks with keeping a player back a school year?"

3and2Fastball10,000+ posts

A small sample and extremely anecdotal, but, the vast majority of kids from my son's "age group" in LL who are now Sophomores (my kid is a Freshman) are extremely mediocre players now. They benefited from being bigger at ages 10-12 and seemingly bought into being told how good they were.

Keep in mind we aren't in a Baseball hotbed and kids don't have to work hard to get spots on Varsity. But being on the May through Summer side of the May 1st birthday cutoff definitely did not benefit most of the kids who in 6th Grade were competing against 5th graders.

3/20/189:35 AM

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