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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They are very young, OP. How do you know they’ll want to play travel, or that they’ll want to play in college? Maybe they’ll be theater kids, or robotics kids, or artists.

My kid started travel baseball at 12. He is a sophomore now, and will play in college if he doesn’t get injured, etc. He played rec basketball for many years, and is now on his school team, but he doesn’t play on a club basketball team like his more serious teammates do.

The time to sign up for travel is when your kid says, after a long weekend of their sport “do I get to play again tomorrow?” They really should do it because it makes them HAPPY.[/quote]

+1 have a high school baseball player (a sport notorious for young travel teams) who didn’t play travel until 13. Three sport hs athlete, loved lots of sports before hs, and is being recruited by multiple d1 programs. Waiting for travel did not hurt him - in fact I think it helped his arm health and mental focus.

You don’t have to put them through that when they are that young. Half the kids we knew from little league who played tons of travel baseball quit by freshman year. You don’t have to give into the pressure [/quote]

Ha. You have a pitcher or a catcher too, don’t you? I am PP, and my son didn’t learn to pitch until he was 13, and didn’t start pitching in his teams rotation until 14. He has never been overused, and he doesn’t have years of wear in his elbow. He plays with a few kids who were pitchers through little league and travel ball, and they’ve mostly move on to other positions. The very best we know has an absolute rocket of an arm, but he essentially got the yips after a shoulder injury freaked him out and he won’t pitch anymore. If he had started pitching seriously at 14 rather than 8…who knows? There is so much randomness and chance to who plays late into high school, and why, and where.[/quote]

:-) I don’t, but I have seen what you describe play out with his teammates over and over again. Dads overused their pitcher sons in little league and kid throws the arm out before playing a single game of hs ball. Tough to watch it happen[/quote]

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