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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m curious how “successful” some of the kids of people replying in this thread have been at baseball.  I feel like that is important information to have before OP can determine whether a particular piece of advice is worth listening to.  Because a lot of this sounds like overkill, to put it mildly.[/quote]

NP here. I’m an interested observer with no skin in the game (my son is 14u and 8th grade), but we’ve seen good kids with years of travel baseball under their belts who don’t make high school teams. I totally believe all what has been written here about what’s necessary.

Of course, it depends on the high school, but where we live, there’s a ton of interest and only so many spots.  My son admittedly doesn’t have the commitment to do what it takes to prepare just to try out for the HS team, so he has decided he isn’t going to. [/quote]

For all players, obviously the more playing and practice the better.  But all of the private coaching, hitting and pitching lessons… I suspect that’s for the kids who don’t have a natural talent or are not natural athletes.  I dunno, maybe that’s most kids?  But I suspect there are enough actually gifted players out there to fill some high school rosters without necessarily all of these bells and whistles.[/quote]

I can tell you that at my kids’ high school (large classification suburban public): (1) every player who made JV plays/played travel ball in middle school on various teams- I don’t know what age they started travel ball. My son started at 12U which is probably fairly average. Some probably did start travel earlier.   (2) all the JV players I know of (some players I am not as familiar with) take or have taken private lessons of various types- hitting, pitching etc. Tends to come up in parent or kid chit chat. Some may not have, sure. (3) there is some variation but the players are overall larger/earlier blooming than the typical underclassmen male in 9th-10th grade.

Which is pretty much what people have said, more or less.

The smaller the high school, the easier it will be to make the team generally.

At 10, none of this is really relevant for OP’s kids. They have a few years before they need to think about any of this IMHO. At 10 they should just be playing and having fun, maybe doing some clinics or fun baseball day camp stuff if they want to- and maybe think about travel in a year or two. [/quote]

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