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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those of you playing for a baseball club with more than one team per age group, do they reconfigure teams each year or do boys move up each year together?

This is the first year our club has had two teams in our age group. There’s already talk about how the club is going to shuffle boys around after this fall season—and potentially every spring/fall thereafter. While it’s unclear which is the A or B team, we really like our team and coach and that’s a huge reason we stay. We don’t like the idea of switching up the team every six months. So, now we are considering looking elsewhere if the club opts to break apart our team versus filing in positional gaps by bringing in a new kid or two. [/quote]

My DS plays for an org with 2 teams at his age level. The teams practice together once/wk (with all coaches present) in addition to single team practices. The teams also scrimmage 1-2 times per month outside of team practices (and the team rosters are mixed around a bit for scrimmages). Most of the kids from both teams know each other and have played together at some point or another. Kids also sub for the other team as needed if there are absences.

Teams were configured for fall season and will be reconfigured for spring season- although I do not expect extreme roster changes unless some kids leave the team. However, after 2 tournaments, 2 kids have already been swapped (a kid from A moved down to B, and was replaced by a kid from B moving up to A) based on coach’s discretion.

Our A team is definitely stronger than B, but both teams are competitive. The skill gap between the top few players on A versus the weakest few players on B is very large. The best few kids on A are very elite players. But for the rest of the kids, skill levels are similar- the team confirmations are more related to dividing up pitching/catching and defensive/positional needs.

So far it seems to going well and my DS (who is on B team) is enjoying himself. [/quote]

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