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To answer Rake the Ball's comment on this subject..... The answer is yes I have seen every one of the 30 plus 8th grade players over the years proceeding through different stages in their development in baseball. In the community where I live, there are very few secrets about the talents of athletic kids unless there is a kid that happens to move into our town unnoticed. There were no surprises at this tryout this year. Especially, if your son plays as many games as we have over the past 7 years. In fact, most of those players trying out have been on my son's former teams through the years or he has played against them one time or another. In fact he has probably worked out with half of them when he was playing baskeball. It doesn't take long to see who has some skills and who does not.
I live in the same kind of area -- 10 travel teams per age group across the county; most kids having played for several and everyone knowing everyone's kid and what they are or are not capable of.
Problem is, a lot of people make judgments based on what a kid did when they were 10 or so. After that, if the kid was judged to be awful, any good plays or hits he made was "just getting lucky." A kid we all knew was good was "having an off day" or "just in a slump."
Hopefully this won't be true in your son's case, and all the "good" kids wll make the team.
LHPMom
