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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a son in 15u baseball. He didn't start travel until 12u so we don't have experience with the younger ages, but as others have said, you're playing ball on major holiday weekends- Memorial Day, Labor Day, 4th of July, etc.

If 9u does doubleheaders on the weekends, it's a big time suck. You're easily looking at 7+ hours depending on where games are held.

If your team travels for tournaments, some are stay to play which means the hotels will be even more expensive than if you booked your own stay.  I think many (but I'm sure not all) teams 12u and younger have parent coaches; it seems 13u and up is when you start getting majority professional coaches (which will increase your fees, of course).

Depending on the organization, there may be an expectation that you book training with their affiliated instructors. My son's never been on a team that requires that, thankfully. Again, not sure what the younger ages require but there are often winter workouts (usually not included with team fees).

My son's loved playing. He hasn't loved every single aspect of it but has kept returning to baseball every season. I think we may be stepping back from fall travel though as it's a lot of baseball playing school ball right into summer travel right into fall travel with a few short months of rest before gearing up for high school workouts and tryouts. [/quote]

This. Travel is a waste on an 8-year old.  Until age 12, kids are just learning the game and developing their baseball IQ. Rec is perfectly fine for that. If he shows interest, travel at 12 or even later is useful and can be a lot of fun.

Signed, mom of two youth players, one now plays at a D1. [/quote]

+1 from another parent of a college player who didn’t start travel until 13u. It is fine if they want to do it, but not necessary.[/quote]
Are all these people who started at 12 and 13U in the DC area? I feel like several people I know were shut out by waiting, their kids are good but the kids who have been on Travel since 8 or 9 are occupying all the spots.[/quote]

There are many programs that start at 13u or 14u…in addition there are programs that are blunt that they have no loayalty to their 8u-12u players at the older ages and they will add better players to the team from tryouts

There are also programs that will completely change up their 16u and 17u teams (if they send many kids to play in college) because they want all their kids to get recruited and won’t keep any kids they don’t think will make it.[/quote]

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