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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Baseball.  From a technical perspective it’s requires the most skill at the varsity level. And it’s sneaky dangerous with a higher number of injuries than most other sports.  [/quote]

This is laughable.  My DS made varsity baseball at his school his senior year on a whim.  It was a team that won states consistently.  He's a great athlete and was playing soccer and ice hockey.  Never played baseball before other than pick up.  Coach was surprised to hear he hadn't been playing club all along. [/quote]

Just about every elite athlete agrees that baseball is the most difficult.  It’s almost universally agreed.

https://www.si.com/college/2022/12/27/deion-sanders-football-baseball-easier[/quote]

That doesn’t make it the physically toughest sport. Yes, hitting a baseball is uniquely difficult—and perhaps the single most difficult skill to master in all of sports. It requires a blend of hand eye coordination, pattern recognition and body control.

But that doesn’t make it the physically toughest.

And for as difficult as hitting. A baseball may be, the rest of the sport is not nearly as difficult or physically demanding. Pitching and catching excepted. [/quote]

It’s really not that hard to hit the baseball…it’s getting a base hit.  It’s not as though people strike out 7 of 10 times.

Again, this question is on youth sports.  The best hitters on our HS team are batting .600+.  [/quote]

Most varsity pitchers at the top DMV schools would absolutely embarrass any parent who stepped in the box.  It’s incredibly hard to even touch a baseball moving 88+ mph with just a slight bit of movement.  Anyone hitting .600 in high school is not facing serious competition.  The best hitters in the WCAC are in the .400s.  [/quote]

What does that have to do with anything?  Most varsity players at any top DMV school would embarrass parents in any sport.

Since when is the goalpost how a parent would do in a sport?

Now you are referencing the very top league in the DMV…but if you look at even the top VA teams, the best hitters are approaching .600 because yes you don’t have the ability to recruit players like privates do.

However, the larger point is that the WCAC hitter batting .400 isn’t striking out 6/10 times…they just aren’t getting a base hit 6/10 times.  They are striking out maybe 5% of the time.[/quote]

You are incorrectly equating “toughest” with pain.  [/quote]

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