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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If LL is your Rec option, I would consider a local travel team to get on the bigger 50-70 field with Major League  Baseball rules. Longer throws, leads/pickoffs, 1st/3rd plays -- a lot more baseball. Especially beneficial if you have a knowledgeable coach.

People are focusing on Varsity, but you gotta make teams before that to get there. Coaches love smart ballplayers.[/quote]

This there’s so much nuance to baseball and so many rules. By 11, kids are throwing 50+ MPH. By 13, some are close to 70. It gets much harder to hit, and even if you do get a hit, you need to be a smart base runner so you don’t get picked off or caught in a pickle. I don’t think kids can get the reps they need by just playing rec in my area. I can think of trades players who didn’t the JV this year. It is very hard to make JV at one of the 3 ApS high schools. They have so many kids who would easily make the weakest school’s team and maybe even the average school’s team. [/quote]

The better 9U (and a couple of the best 8U) travel teams have kids throwing 50+ already… from 46 feet. [/quote]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

I am so far removed from kiddie ball that I don’t even know if these speeds are plausible (or good for age)

But please get back to us when they are 12U, 14u, high school JV, & HS varsity. You won’t see much correlation with speeds in 9U kiddie ball (or heck, even 12U), one way or the other. That, I can promise.

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