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Originally posted by Doughnutman:
WKlink,
Have you never been to a HS or college where a transfer comes in and takes somebodies spot? Or someone who was a starter last year gets beat out this year? It is competition. 2 years ago we had a kid transfer in that was a catcher. A real good catcher. Everybody got bumped down one spot on the depth chart. Since he was a sophmore, a few never caught again. He has signed with U of A. We had a kid transfer out. He is a D1 early signee. I know he took someones spot out in Cali. We have three freshman starting on JV. They knocked some kids out of their spots and out of baseball. It is the same thing to me as flying someone in.
Baseball is about competition.
Yes, but I have never heard of colleges bringing in mercinary players to take the spot of established players for one or two games. I'm not talking about someone who transfers into a program and joins up.
This isn't high school, this is 12 year old baseball. These are kids that pay a pretty fair amount of money to be on these teams. Everyone here knows how much money can be spent to join up with some of these high level travel teams. To just kick some kid off to bring in a ringer is more than just wrong. If my son joined a team, if I spent thousands for him to play on this team only to be kicked off because some ringer was flown in from a town a couple hundred miles away I would be more than royally peed off.
One last thing and then I will get off my soapbox. About half of the people here talk about attitude and hustle. The signature blocks of many of our posters talk about hard work and putting forth that extra effort. What kind of message does it tell that kid, that kid that went to every practice, that kid that came early and worked late, who hustled on every play that his efforts are completely expendable when some coach finds some ringer that will just take his place.
You may think this is fine because your son is the replacement player and if that is fine by you I guess that is ok but my son would NEVER be on any kind of team like that. Baseball at the youth level is more about teaching teamwork and game skills than it is about strict winning and losing.