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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Another question slightly related: Our son did Single A last year (league age 7).  Most of his teammates were also league age 7 (1st grade).  The coach decided to keep their son back one more year in Single A as an 8 year old, and convinced most of the team to do so as well.  Isn't that some type of anomaly?  The league guidelines state that Single A is primarily for 6-7 year olds, and that any 8 year olds or  advanced 5 year olds need to contact the player agent.  Many of them are ready for AA; I think they're just trying to build a "super-team" of 8 year olds by red-shirting them.[/quote]

I have kids that play with WSLL. I assume each league has their own age guidelines. I have a first grader who is playing single A. As I understand it, in second grade half play A and half play AA. It can go either way.

My oldest just had his first eval (AAA) which I understand is really to even out the teams. I have no idea how he did (and I don’t really care assuming they take him for AAA!). We couldn’t watch.  I understand evals start at AA. [/quote]

My 8 year old just had his first AAA tryout too with WSLL!  Good luck to your kids this season![/quote]

Thanks for the nice note. I hope your kid was drafted! Mine wasn’t drafted for AAA ugh (even though he’s that age group). I feel kind of bad for him but he played t-ball in K and then didn’t play baseball again until 4th grade so that what happens... oh well. [/quote]

That happens, but it can often end being a good thing as they get more time to develop their baseline skills and get to play the role of leader on the lower level team.

I assume you are one of the WSLL people who posted earlier.

In WSLL, they draft majors first.  Once kids make majors, they stay on that team until they age out. Last year, they had a lot of majors kids aging out (I think my kid's team had 7/12 aging out) along with several military kids who moved away.

So the returning majors kids already have their spots out of the 12 kid rosters.  I am just guessing, but based off the 6th and 7th graders who aged out, there were probably around 40 to 50 available spots between National and American league this season.  I think there were around 90 kids total on the try out roster for those spots, so around half +/- of the 10 to 12 year olds trying out for majors did not make it. My kid did not, so he and those other kids drop into the AAA draft.  There were some very strong players in the 10 to 11 year old range who did not get drafted (happens every year).  Every year, there are a handful of 12 year olds who do not get drafted into majors. They automatically get a spot on a AAA team.  I believe the 11 year olds who do not get drafted for majors automatically get a spot on a AAA team too.

So of the 120 spots for AAA, probably around 1/4 or more were already allocated to 11 and 12 year olds not drafted to majors, and another chunk will go to the 9 and 10 year olds not drafted to majors who played AAA last season

So that leaves half or a little more than half of the remaining spots for those kids who are either returning from AAA (were not strong enough to try out for majors) or moving up from AA.

The AAA tryout group is always huge, far bigger than their are spots for.  A big portion of those kids will end up on AA teams.

Your kid might have been great or had a decent try out, but especially if he was on the younger end or coming out of A or AA, then the odds were against him getting drafter his first go around.
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