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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son played in the Little League World Series regionals after the winning state championship.   He and every kid on his team also play travel baseball and have since they’ve been 9.  They play Little league on Saturdays and travel on Sundays (double header each Sunday) in both fall and spring and I’d say that 90% of them take weekly batting lessons as well.  Several also have private pitching coaches and some do supplemental strength and/or agility training.
The teams they played in the regionals were also compromised entirely of dual little league/travel players..and some from states like NJ and TX were playing even more baseball—up to 5 games a weekend, every weekend in the spring in travel tournaments.

The good hitters on our team were hitting 1000 balls a week in batting practice (either through paying an instructor or by their dad).  That’s about   2-4 hours per day in the cages, 7 days a week.

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If I had a gifted baseball player I would avoid this kind of travel schedule and stick with little league.

Adult professional ballplayers do not play double (or triple) headers.

You are just asking for overuse injuries by pushing an 8 to 12 year old this hard and in this way, especially since these kids are prepubescent with no guarantee they will have the body to play in college or even high school once growth spurts hit and other kids either catch up or surpass them just due to maturity.

I guess if the end goal is LL world series level play that is one thing, but if the goal is longevity into college and beyond it seems like this would be the least smart way to do it.

You are substituting short term glory for long term achievement.[/quote]

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