if your playing on a travel team (not an one tournament hired gun) outside your region are you expected to attend every game, tournament, showcase, practice...as opposed to just the big PG type tournaments? Not including East Coast Pro, etc.
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We live in Texas. Son has a team that plays in Texas/Louisiana (and one trip to Georgia) and one that plays Georgia/Florida. He sends them a schedule of which tournaments he will make. He practices with the Texas/Louisiana team. He is a PO for one team, P and other positions for the other. The only restriction given by the Texas/Louisiana team is son must play two specific tournaments for them.
Son has primary team and secondary team. Primary team he is playing all except one tournament from start to finish, Pitching and playing field/dh. The secondary team he is playing with when he is not with the primary team. Mostly field/DH and pitching limited when it does not interfere with primary. The secondary coach knows when he pitches on primary. He will miss one big tournament with secondary and a day or two at start or finish of several others. Both are Elite teams playing big tournaments. In essence, he will play almost every day this summer except for a few travel days and one short vacation with a friend at the beach.
That would be up to the coach/team you're on. If you're a PO and starting on Saturday, I'd assume you could do whatever you want the other days as long as you're ready when you get on the mound. I would ask any potential team what their thoughts are before committing to play for them.
I would definitely ask the coach/organization. The team my son played for was mostly funded by donors, including hotel costs. They played and practiced every day, traveled together. The roster had many POs, all were expected to be at every game. The players that lived out of state/or greater than an hour or so away stayed with host families. The POs had certain responsibilities like keeping the scores/stats, (which were very accurate), checking velos, etc. Truly a team effort, while balancing the recruiting aspects. I would say this was an excellent experience. Best baseball experience outside of college experience, in fact.
