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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of the biggest kids in elementary on our oldest kids baseball team stopped growing in the eighth grade peaked out at 5’8. Now kids who were “tiny“ skinny, but obviously had taller parents, are towering over him. That’s not to say this will happen with your kid, but don’t let these comments bother you.

People that say things like that have some weird hangups in my opinion. It’s almost like they think your kid shouldn’t be that good because he’s not as big as their kid and it confuses them? And or people just say stupid things sometimes.

For what it’s worth my youngest is currently in eighth grade only 5’5 and is the starting shortstop and pitcher on their baseball team. We know he’s not going to play beyond high school and that’s just fine. His athletic ability and attention to the fundamentals keeps him in the game and a better ball player than many of the bigger kids who don’t have the baseball IQ and have relied on their size/power. Sadly, seeing many of those kids not making their high school baseball teams.[/quote]

That’s the frustrating thing, that there seems to be an assumption that size correlates with skill. I can see post puberty when it’s more about general strength but a lot of the smaller kids are fast and skilled and some of the biggest kids are not. [/quote]

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