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[quote=Anonymous]I have one playing travel baseball (13u) and one playing travel soccer (U11). The oldest is all about baseball and gave up other sports by 11 or so. The younger is more multi-sport, but we stick to just one travel sport. As others have said, baseball is incredibly time consuming—40+ games since April for his 13u team. So the youngest plays travel soccer and still plays Little League (and All Stars) baseball, and CYO and county basketball. He had one teammate at U9 who did both travel soccer and basketball. They gave it up after a year and just committed to travel baseball.

The travel coaches we’ve had have tried to keep teams lean so there aren’t a bunch of complaints about playing time, which means that a kid who is regularly absent can mess things up in terms of numbers. It’s all very situation specific though in terms of knowing your club, team, coaches, etc. and what will fly and what won’t. One option may be to play for a B team for one of the travel sports as they sometimes make those teams bigger knowing that some kids aren’t as committed, do other things, etc. That’s just been my experience in watching B teams in both baseball and soccer over the years where my kids play—they’re always looking for fill-ins from the A team because of vacations or other sports/activities or whatever while the A team kids don’t seem to miss practices/games unless absolutely necessary.[/quote]

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