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Originally posted by justbaseball:
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Originally posted by Bee>:
congrats & a great story 08dad, but seems more related to "playing up"
No, its more related to playing with your grade in his case rather than based on the crazy new birthdate cutoffs.
JBB has hit it right on the head - what I was trying to say was that in 08Son's case he was playing with the group of players where coaches expected to find him. No one cares about his birthdate - only his graduation date - and by playing with other rising seniors, he was where he was supposed to be.
I think two things are getting a little mixed up here between how the team is formed - and what events/other teams they play. If the team is formed by grade, that puts people "into the right group" based upon what coaches expect to see. Then what events the team plays - that is a function of building the right schedule for that group of players. A rising senior team might play in everything from a 19U to a 17U event - based upon what is right for that team.
And in my opinion, travel baseball is is about playing good competition, in good venues and raising the level of your game - not about winning an event and taking home a medal to be thrown in a drawer. But that is probably another thread.
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