My son’s high school team had a jackass on the roster. No one liked him. Junior and senior year this kid thought he was the best player on the team. He wasn’t afraid to tell everyone on the team. He especially had a burr up his butt about my son. He had been playing second fiddle to him since LL all stars.
He was good. He hit .400 senior year after going 4-4 in the last game. He had a gun for an arm in right and ran a 6.6 sixty. He made all conference for the first time senior year.
The kids on the team shunned him. They didn’t talk to him. The kid stood by himself in the dugout. He tried to make friends with the new players called up from JV. But they had heard about him. My son told me about an in your face calling out the head coach had with him during a on offseason workout session.
The kid didn’t hurt team chemistry. He was ignored. Both years he was in varsity they won the conference and went well into districts in a very large 6A classification district. They got at large state seeds both years.
The kid went mid major CAA. My son had a friend playing in the same program. He was told the “teammate” got into it with one of the assistants in the fall. He was told his baseball services would no longer be needed.
The kid stayed at the school. Last I knew he got his PhD and is a professor there. One of the kid’s problems was he was smarter than most people and didn’t respect them. He didn’t know when to shut up.
I had the kid on my 13u team. Most of the team approached me and requested I not have the kid back for 14u. They were tired of hearing from the kid how much better he was than everyone else.
I coached the kid through two years of LL and 13u. I had already decided I had enough. He wasn’t invited back.
Add: After junior year the high school head coach asked me if I had any problems coaching the kid. I responded the kid was now three years older so any comment wouldn’t be applicable.
