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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Concentrate only on his hitting. Even if he is great at fielding, LL is all about "daddy ball". The manger and coaches kids will be pitchers and other infielders. Then kids who played majors last year.  Your kid could vastly improve his fielding and still never get to play if he is mediocre at hitting.
He will be required to get one at bat each game. If the coaches see he can hit, he will be in the starting line-up and has a chance then to play more. My kid is not a big kid so there is no way he was going to get noticed. We had him take batting lessons all fall and winter. He started smoking the ball and getting doubles and triples when he batted. We kept up the batting lessons all spring. He started off getting one at bat the first two games then two at bats, to finally making the starting line up, then working his way up to 5th batter. The coaches kids batted in the top three and then a huge kid batted fourth.

The other thing the batting coach told my son at the beginning of the season was not to walk unless the balls being pitched weren't hittable at all. He said that if he just walked the coaches weren't going to notice his hitting ability. He thought it was better to make contact to show the coaches he could drive the ball. So the second game, he fouled two far down into the outfield but just foul. He struck out swinging but it helped the coaches see he could hit. [/quote]

+1 to what this person said. All of it. Excellent advice, all.[/quote]

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