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[quote=Anonymous]All of these baseball organizations are the same. You have to get in as early as possible. If they have 8U, do it. Your child will be a part of the core team that gains favor forever. The core team gets the top of the batting order which gives them more chances at bat and stacks their stats. They will get preferred infield positions and they will get chances to pitch. Every single coach has a preferred 6-8 kids and the rest are all expendable. Maybe there will be an exceptional kid who moves to the team from Florida or a really terrible kid that eventually quits but otherwise the teams stay the same since age 7. If your kids are part of the core team, they will have fun. If they are not then they will feel intense competition from their teammates and they will feel no value from their coaches. Travel baseball is a performance among men. If your husband played any professional or college sport, the baseball coach will be attracted to your husband and might show favor to your child. The men who run these profit driven organizations are very young, petty, and egocentric. We declined an offer for a group to use my very young child to form a new team and the owner told us that we needed to be careful because he holds a grudge. We joined a team for one of my sons and all the parents told us that their college plan for their ten year old was baseball- that he had to get a baseball scholarship or he wasn’t going to college. These parents are delusional and travel baseball is a multi level marketing scheme. However… things change after puberty and it starts to shift more towards rewarding talent and less nepotism so my best advice is to get on the most casual team as early as possible with the least amount of travel. Let your kid enjoy the privilege of being in the core group and boosting his little ego and allow all the fantasies of future success. Then when he hits puberty, let him realize that college baseball is a pipe dream. Don’t let your child pitch. Pitching is a lose lose situation because every parent on that team is fighting for pitching time. If your child is a great pitcher, the coaches will overuse his arm. If he  is a good pitcher, he will never ever get practice or game time on the mound. If you really want to stack the deck for your child, make him a catcher. Catchers have the freedom to switch teams at will and get tons of playing time. The lesson here is that all baseball organizations are exactly the same. All the kids are all pretty average. There are maybe 2 kids per team that are actually good and you won’t know which ones they are until they are 15. If you don’t start in a travel org at age 7/8, plan to switch travel teams every year or two. [/quote]

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