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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Maybe they had smaller caps due to under enrollment of players?[/quote]

This could be. They also may have smaller teams because of covid.

Our LL is forming majors teams of only 11 this year (really the smallest they can get away with at that level).

Also; LL levels and who plays where, is often a numbers game. If, say, 90 kids try out for majors, 12 to a team, the league could do 5 teams (60), 6 teams (72) or 7 (84).  The number of teams/move ups etc often depends how many 12s there are, how many qualified coaches, and frankly the strength of the players (is there enough skill- especially pitching- to have 7 teams and not dilute majors play so much that it might as well be minors?). Point being, depending on the year, sometimes qualified kids are left off due to numbers and sometimes borderline kids end up making Majors to fill the end of the roster.

As an unknown player, he might have had a good tryout but the evaluations are so minimal and you can’t always tell a whole lot about a player. By the time kids are 11/12, coaches can usually refer back to last season etc and that tends to be more influential. Good players can have bad tryouts and bad players can have good tryouts. Happens all the time. My son has as 12u buddy that regularly whacks balls over the fence during BP, but is a pretty poor hitter in games (struggles with faster pitching). The reverse could also be true (kid has a poor tryout but has hit very well the last 2 LL seasons and in club ball). Some coaches would be able to spot this during a tryout but not all.

It sounds like the kid deserves to play majors and this shouldn’t have happened...but it isn’t necessarily “blackballing a kid” or anything nefarious going on. [/quote]

Yes to all this. [/quote]

We met with the Minors coach at the first practice and he agreed to have a 1:1 with son a few days later to see for himself if he would make a recommendation to the league. Afterwards, he did recommend to the league that he thought son should be in Majors, the league refused to budge. They didn't really offer a reason other than "the teams are set". The vibe really seemed "you can't sit with us" and we ultimately just felt unwelcome and decided to leave. Incidentally my son was player #12 on his roster, so teams did go up to 12 and not just 11, so the "no room" excuse just doesn't fly. Some leagues/teams just aren't going to be a good fit as we found out. Son already tried out and made a travel team so he will be plenty busy with baseball this spring, just not with a LL team.[/quote]

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