Baseball teams cost 3X what Soccer cost 13-15YO

[Anonymous]

If you overweight the value of practices over games, my DS baseball teams cost 3x what his soccer teams cost. This is for a competitive non-rec team.

He averages 1 outdoor practice a week for baseball and some weeks that gets cut to none when the season starts.
He averages 2-3 outdoor soccer practices a week.

The actual coaching in soccer blows away what he gets in baseball (echoed by other parents/teams)

Maybe we need more baseball fields - I am in MoCo

I know rain has something to do with it.

[Anonymous]

Does his baseball team do indoor workouts? Batting practice? I know when DS played baseball and soccer, the soccer fields were more likely to stay open than the baseball fields when there was inclement weather. But baseball games took 2x longer to play than soccer. Double headers meant a solid six hours on the same field. Having outdoor practice cancelled sucked but there wasn’t always an indoor option.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you overweight the value of practices over games, my DS baseball teams cost 3x what his soccer teams cost. This is for a competitive non-rec team.

He averages 1 outdoor practice a week for baseball and some weeks that gets cut to none when the season starts.
He averages 2-3 outdoor soccer practices a week.

The actual coaching in soccer blows away what he gets in baseball (echoed by other parents/teams)

Maybe we need more baseball fields - I am in MoCo

I know rain has something to do with it.

you son gets one outdoor practice before very game, honey

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you overweight the value of practices over games, my DS baseball teams cost 3x what his soccer teams cost. This is for a competitive non-rec team.

He averages 1 outdoor practice a week for baseball and some weeks that gets cut to none when the season starts.
He averages 2-3 outdoor soccer practices a week.

The actual coaching in soccer blows away what he gets in baseball (echoed by other parents/teams)

Maybe we need more baseball fields - I am in MoCo

I know rain has something to do with it.

1. You're not paying by the hour.
2. Baseball teams around here generally don't develop any of the individual skills so your hitting and pitching are on you.
3. The best baseball coaches around here either coach high school or get paid for lessons. The demand for baseball coaches outpaces the supply by a fair bit.
4. The average soccer coach come from krypton (pretty much anywhere outside the USA) where any random dude off the street knows a crap ton about soccer.
5. The largest travel baseball clubs around here are very much for profit despite what their tax filings might say.

[Anonymous]

Op— I think the same thing every week! My two girls play for travel soccer, my boy plays travel baseball. He practices twice a week, for an hour and a half and a double header on the weekend. The winter workouts are jokes— it’s just hitting once a week. During the spring they practice once a week and he’s supposed to play rec. during the summer they practice twice a week if it’s not all star season.

my girls practice three times a week during the season, have two practices a week and a futsal game during the summer, and have a full regular spring season (three practices a week).

Soccer costs less than baseball, and they literally practice so much more! It’s crazy!!

[Anonymous]

Certain sports cost more than others and it generally corresponds to the amount of money parents have more than anything else

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Certain sports cost more than others and it generally corresponds to the amount of money parents have more than anything else

And the skill associated with coaching said sport. Baseball has an incredibly steep learning curve that requires constant reps AND there is a limited supply of people who can competently train kids. Then there's the physical space required to play....You can have a soccer practice on any patch of grass, but baseball requires something more specific.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Certain sports cost more than others and it generally corresponds to the amount of money parents have more than anything else

And the skill associated with coaching said sport. Baseball has an incredibly steep learning curve that requires constant reps AND there is a limited supply of people who can competently train kids. Then there's the physical space required to play....You can have a soccer practice on any patch of grass, but baseball requires something more specific.

Whatever makes you feel better. Parent and volunteer coached baseball teams still cost multiples of soccer teams with professional coaches

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Certain sports cost more than others and it generally corresponds to the amount of money parents have more than anything else

And the skill associated with coaching said sport. Baseball has an incredibly steep learning curve that requires constant reps AND there is a limited supply of people who can competently train kids. Then there's the physical space required to play....You can have a soccer practice on any patch of grass, but baseball requires something more specific.

Whatever makes you feel better. Parent and volunteer coached baseball teams still cost multiples of soccer teams with professional coaches

Really? Neighbor's son plays on a fancy soccer team that costs as much as our DS's mid level travel baseball team (yes, we've compared notes and talked numbers). Maybe their situation is an anomaly?