Select Ball Players on HS Teams

Is this a question for the dads, as in when we played? Or for our sons teams now...Varsity only?

I voted before I read that question.... if it is for the Dad's then I would have said none. Might be dating myself but I am not sure what else there was besides Little and Pony etc.

Now days I would say it is more than half of if not all of the Varsity guys do because of the need to play summer ball to be good enough to make the team. Better players come from the Select leagues and perform better at the HS level.

When I say "Your" team I do not mean dads, I mean the present day players' team, whether it be JV, Varsity, etc.

The word "select" has become so watered down. I know of "select" teams who are not any good, and HS players playing on them doesn't make any difference. If you're wanting me to distinguish between the good teams and the bad ones, let me know please.

We all know select is watered down. No news there. I guess what I was looking for was how many kids never played on a tournament team or anything above LL and are still good enough to make the HS team. I always thought HS teams would be exclusively select players, but last year in Gold Glove we had 3 players who had never played above League ball, which surprised me.

Thanks!

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is Gold Glove?

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Originally posted by Dtiger:
If you're wanting me to distinguish between the good teams and the bad ones, let me know please.

Dtiger- Will you plase let us know who the "good teams" are?

Of the 17 or so kids that I think could make my varsity of team, I believe 13 played some type of select or travel ball. There about 5-6 more guys that have a chance to make it and they all played select or travel ball.

Hopefully I won't mess them up!

OPson- Obviously I am not at liberty to state a personal opinion. I wasn't referencing any specific team but I sometimes hear about Johny's team who goes to all these different places, and then I end up playing them, and they are horrible. Baseball, youth baseball unfortunately, is a business. Anyone can be "select" if that have that "selection of money" available. I guess my answer is... around 50%. Of those 50% at my HS... well I won't go into who plays on a decent team or not. The fact is simple, bad team or not, summer ball (at its simplest form) is there to get better. No-matter who is playing who, if your playing summer ball, you're doing better than a kid sitting on his... glutimus maximus (sp?).

Gold Glove is a summer league in our area in which each team is made up by high school attended, but which is coached by volunteers. Popular with incoming freshmen, after that it usually gets diluted by the true select summer teams.

My sons HS Coach requires you to play select baseball if you are going to play on Varsity.

He doesn't have a summer team, and his fall team is just for him to come out and watch and see how his young men do in certain situations.

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Originally posted by KellerDad:
My sons HS Coach requires you to play select baseball if you are going to play on Varsity.

He doesn't have a summer team, and his fall team is just for him to come out and watch and see how his young men do in certain situations.

I wish more HS coaches would take this approach. The kids would see a different level of competition in the summer, can go to camps and still get with their HS team in the fall and work on some things. JMO

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Originally posted by KellerDad:
My sons HS Coach requires you to play select baseball if you are going to play on Varsity.

He doesn't have a summer team, and his fall team is just for him to come out and watch and see how his young men do in certain situations.

Requires or strongly recommends?

My son's coach also coaches a select team in the summer and watches his player's on other teams. He can talk with them during the summer and watch there progress. I know it really give him a head start on evaulating the boys for next year.
I agree that more coaches need to do something like this in the summer. We are very luck to have such a coach.

Wyliedad- I don't know if I could say anything bad about your coach... EVER. Fundamentals, mental, philisophical, game-time decisions, anything and everything he's good at. Too bad... well, and I mean this in the most complimentative (is that the right word?) way, that he didn't coach there. But your quite lucky to have him.

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Originally posted by Intangibles:

Requires or strongly recommends?

I'm not going to get into semantics, but both statements are true.

KD - I wasn't either. I'm simply trying to get a better understanding of HS coache's expectations as my son is preparing to begin his HS years.