A question about staying with a team

all,
As parents, we worry a lot about our son/children. Having the 20/20 hindsight I now possess, I can see a lot of that worry was quite needless, especially as it relates to baseball.
To me, the first issue should not be baseball. It should be education. Is your son receiving a high quality education. If for whatever reason, he did not play baseball tomorrow, is this a school that will prepare him to maximize college opportunities?
Second, is he socially and academically happy? Does he have good friends and is he in a good and healthy social situation.
Three, what is his view of transferring. I think his input/views are critical.
Finally, my son went to college in San Antonio and I learned what a hotbed of talent the Houston area truly is. If your son is playing summer ball, attends showcases, and most of all, is a talented player, colleges are going to find him. If it is any support for you, my wife and I worried ourselves almost to a when our son, who attended a small private high school with a good baseball program was only recruited by one school, a DIII in TX. He ended up with a great college education and degree. Had more fun than you could ever imagine with college baseball and has life long friends. On top of that, it turned out he was a pretty darn good baseball player too. Good enough that we know now it isn't the high school that makes the difference, it is how you love and play the game.
In our son's junior and senior year of high school, playing at a "major" college was foremost in our household. That did not happen. However, that ended up being a great positive, not a negative. It was also not a result of the high school he attended. Hope this might help you manage some of that

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Good enough that we know now it isn't the high school that makes the difference, it is how you love and play the game.
In our son's junior and senior year of high school, playing at a "major" college was foremost in our household. That did not happen. However, that ended up being a great positive, not a negative.

infielddad - I loved your post. It seems to me with a wee bit of hindsight, that adversity or when things don't go your way or as planned, such experience can be great motivation and may be the ultimate tool that forges some ball players. Thus, when we look back, we say things like, such and such experience "ended up being a great positive, not a negative."

from our experience, college coaches rarely attend high school games, never ask about your hs stats and certainly not your team's records.
A player needs to get seen during the summer (especially between jr and sr year) and get to whatever showcases, camps etc. that they can so as to be seen.

I can see no correlation between where you play in hs and your chances for college. The importance of hs is that you are getting a chance to play and to improve your game and getting good coaching and if the coach is someone who will help support you and communicate with colleges, just an added bonus.