Average Age and Comparisions

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2019, Thank you for the link, interesting read.

 

Son falls right on the Very Young border described.

Last summer he played with 2015 kids who will be turning 20 this summer so appreciate the relevancy of the article.

2019Dad - thanks for the links.

 

Catcherdad - are you saying your son is playing with "kids" who will be handed their high school diploma AFTER having celebrated their 19th birthday?  Perhaps did these kids hve difficulties in school or is it the result of parents holding their kids back for an extra two years???  You see comments about thinking twice before a freshman gets called up to varsity and hanging out with 17/18 year olds.  I think I would be creeped out if there was a kid/man in the dugout who was 19+.

Catcherdad is correct. I know of a 2017 who is almost 17 1/2 now. A 2016 that will be 19 1/2 when he graduates.   My son will turn 16 a couple of weeks before his junior year starts.

Son's 15u summer team is mostly 2018's that are his age or older, mostly NJ and PA kids. Another reason why he's spending time this summer on one of their 16u teams.

It doesn't matter to him as he's always played against older kids anyway. And should he play in college he will have to go up against teammates that are older. No need to dwell on it.

He was last summer, yes.

These good players switched schools and/or were held back to become 2015's, several will be drafted this June.

it was pretty clear it was for baseball reasons.

A few MLB scouts have mentioned it as well. 

 

Son had started school very early on when we lived in a major city where this is not as prevalent and had we known the baseball culture/strategy (for lack of better word) and that he would be a player, we would have probably done something ourselves.

We looked online at many 2016's and even saw some 2017's who are older.

 

It's done, he has a very good $ D1 scholarship for a coach who is high on him, and gotten good scout attention.

He loves the game and gets to continue whatever happens.

 

Best of luck to everyone's son this spring and summer.

 

Thank you 2019Dad...these articles were very enlightening.  My kid is an August kid too...there are definitely some baseball blips having a birthday like that, namely when you start your Senior year at age 16 and you are competing for a baseball spot against 19+ year olds...well it is sink or swim time that's for sure!

My 2017 son just agreed to play on a summer team composed of 18-19yos.  At first I had some doubts about a rising Jr. playing with a lot of kids who had just graduated, but then I realized that it's the same kids he's playing with and against now.  I think he'll be fine.

It was somewhat a hard decision to let my son join his current travel team as of last fall, as they are big on players playing their age. That's the downside for me. Upside is they are a very established and well know organization.  It was where my son felt was best for him.

After always playing older kids and starting on varsity in HS last year, I wasn't crazy about him playing his age. But I credit his team, as they let him play a 16u and 17u tournament with the 16u team and a 18u tournament with the 17u team. He was able to handle himself so they allowed him to move up for those tournaments.

Turned out my son was right. It was the place that was best for him.

And playing with older kids is an adjustment for a younger kid. My son was a 14 year old freshman last year playing with 17 and 18 year olds on varsity. Fortunately, and I do mean this, he was comfortable with older kids by that point. That, and all of the preaching I did to him about what to stay away from helped.

Yes he had to carry this and carry that, took a good bit of razzing along the way, but he did ok. Held his own.

My son's experience on V as a freshman was similar.  He was a bit uncomfortable at first, and he carried twice his share of buckets, tarps, and hoses, but the dedication he learned from the seniors on that team was more than worth it.  Those kids were leaders who really knew how to take care of their business,  both on and off the field.

 

At the time, I thought he would be better off on JV, but now that I see the confidence he's playing with this year,  I know I was wrong.

And this is the positive flip side of Frosh playing on V that we don't hear about too often. Yes, the kids are older, but there is also a lot that can be learned from the older kids. There are a couple of great seniors, but the Sophomore class is stellar at leadership and there are a lot of Sophs on V. My 2018 fits in well with V kids and they are really excited to have him. He's on the younger side with a March birthday, but he's definitely not the youngest.

My son is a 2015.....and won't turn 18 until the 26th of this month.  He has friends in his class who will be 19 by the time they graduate in late May. I don't think any of the college coaches he talked to before committing ever asked when his birthday was so I'm thinking they don't care......though maybe if the were looking at kids who potentially could leave early due to the draft they might (my son won't have that problem...lol)

This is a good article, except for the part about why nobody wanted Albert Pujols. I was always under the impression that nobody could be sure about how old he was. When he was a Junior in high school he was the hardest hitting 21 year old in the country.

My son is a young 14yo freshman on a varsity dominated with seniors. While he's taller than all but one player on the roster at 6' 3", the body types of the seniors are completely different. My son is lean and soft while these guys are all buffed up. Not to mention, he still has a baby face and looks like Baby Huey among these guys.

That was my son last year.  It was a great year for him.  Although the youngest, he was far from the smallest.