Cage work/Game time

Is it the batting tunnel (enclosed off the side) or the cage (covering at the plate on the field)? Reason I ask is that if it's the tunnel then BP in there can be hard to read. You don't see where the ball is going, how far, how hard it's coming off the bat and stuff like that. Now if it's the cage on the field then you can tell how well a hitter is doing.

Overall I would be a little more patient. A team with 23 players is hard to get playing time on. As the season goes on the cream rises to the top and the best players will get the bulk of the playing time......usually.

The season is early and tell him to keep working. If he's hitting in a tunnel then get him to hit screaming line drives back up the middle. If it's on the cage on the field then make sure he's hitting the ball solidly to all parts of the field.

Thanks for the response. Cage work takes place in the batting tunnel. Son is at the batting cages just about every night. I will tell him to work HARDER.

My son complains that he actually gets to hit LESS once formal HS practice starts as they have to work through all of the kids on the team, and they are using up time in "his" cage. It is also not an accident that he and one other kid are the two that are there most often after practice, and at other “off” times at the cage. In nearly every case during the weekends or evenings when he goes to the cage to get in additional work there is one other kid there. Guess what?….those two hit in the 3 – 4 holes. Outwork everyone on the team and you will be in the lineup.

BOF,
Same here. To take it a step further...
There are multiple hitting stations during practices. Of course, not all are coached/supervised. A quick glance at who has focused effort at the non-supervised stations becomes the equivalent of writing the batting order.