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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This happened to our kid.  He was assigned to minors by his LL.

He played some games with the assigned minors team  but also signed up for Arlington Babe Ruth and got better experience there (ABR does not care about residency).  He also played for an (admittedly bad) travel team.

The following year he was drafted into majors by the LL.  He made All-Stars for two years and was named LL MVP his final year.   [/b]Almost every other boy on the All-Star team was a coach's son.[b] Me? I can't even throw properly.  I sure as hell didn't coach my sons.

LL is replete with stupid politics and Daddyball, and always has been.  One year Ryan Zimmerman spoke at my son's high school and was asked about youth baseball. He replied that it was good but that LL was too political and not really reflective of how baseball operates.   He said that his own LL experience was terrible.

So yes, just play minors, but play club or somewhere else to continue to develop. At some point the Daddyball coaches stop being relevant and your boy will shine![/quote]

For our league, All Stars is going to look like that based on all the new dads coaching this season.  Some of these kids are good, but some of the others are clearly stilled upset about their playing time from All Stars in 2019. 
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