How important is hitting at the 13u baseball level?

[Anonymous]

How well does he listen to base coaches? That’s the thing that gets kids benched on our team, good or not

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Anonymous wrote:Daddy ball?

That would be my guess. I think summer little league is the height of daddy ball to the point where teams will willingly lose games if that means favored kids get to play shortstop and bat 3rd

No, not in the all star tournaments. Not at all. Daddy’s kids may make the team but they have to be realistic. Everyone from the LL community is watching

If they were going to be realistic, they wouldn't include so many daddy coach kids on these all star teams.

My kid’s team had a daddy ball kid on it. The dad is an outstanding coach. The kid was at the bottom of the batting order (had to bat per LL rules) & pretty much never played the field. Hard to say what to do in those circumstances..the dad would not want to coach with no kid on the team, yet there were kids equal or a little better than his kid that didn’t make the team (but they would not have played much either). The dads of those kids don’t coach…so IDK what the right choice would really be.

I'm not sure that's really 'daddyball' the way most people describe it. In fact, having the kid at the bottom of the order and not in the field undermines any Daddyball accusations.

Daddyball would have been if the coach batted him 3rd and let him play SS.

We just left a team were the coach's kid batted cleanup despite having the lowest average on the team.

[Anonymous]

In our experience, hitting is the number one thing that will get your kid playing time. I've seen this at both the club level and high school. Even if a kid regularly makes errors, if they are a top hitter they will play. I'm not sure what is going on in your son's experience, OP, but if he will have different coaches going forward, I wouldn't worry about it.
--parent of a 16 year old