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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks, but the point of my question was to get at whether paying big bucks (as opposed to less bucks) on teens is really worth it. We’ve got a kid that keeps getting double takes from coaches. The kid is a grinder — slow and steady, and has a stereotypical baseball body. (Some teams almost look almost like a bunch of clones.) He turned 13 last month and is at least 5’8”.

it’s hard to take coaches seriously sometimes because youth sports have turned kids into commodities. You want believe but the system is difficult to trust especially when you as a parent don’t have a lot of coin and grew up on the wrong side of the tracks. Scholarships (even partial) would be great, but that isn’t our reason for our kids to play sports. I look around and see some less talented kids going to places like those mentioned above, and it makes me sad, because with some of these kids, it looks like a money grab situation. Worse, early in the pandemic when the world knew very, very little about COVID, some of these teams were having clandestine practices. I have difficulty trusting these places to do right by my kid.

Sorry. Just a bit of a vent / thinking out loud.[/quote]

You need an unbiased opinion. I would ask around your LL. There should be an old-timer who has no skin in the game (e.g. no kids playing or tied to a travel team).  Ask that person what he or she (there are women!) thinks of your son.   Then you can figure out whether it's worth it.

Again, your son has to want to play.  I have heard many stories of kids who peaked early physically only to get burned out mentally and quit the game.  Many times these are LL coaches' sons.

If the feedback from both the elders and your son is good, then start looking around at the teams via NVTBL and the Stars, Canes and Big Train websites (the latter 3 teams do not play NVTBL, only tournaments).  [/quote]

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