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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry the coach lied.  Many coaches are really terrible at this age - any coach who thinks winning is important at age 11 (select team or not) has a screw loose and is getting some sort of weird validation from being a winning coach instead of developing athletes and setting a good example for kids.

My only advice is to find a more casual, local-only travel team that’s not trying to be “competitive” (I take it that’s what you were trying to do, but don’t give up because of one crappy coach!). We have always sought out teams like this for our son, and I think it has only helped his development as a player, teammate, and quite frankly as a person[b].  He is in high school now and nobody knows or cares who was on the “elite” team three or four years ago.[/b]

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Very true. Any parent of a high school baseball player could tell some stories and give examples….performance at the younger ages has little correlation to performance later on at the high school level +. Many of the youth “stars” never even make the HS baseball team, and many youth “weak players” do. I’ve seen this over and over again. Lots of surprises. [/quote]

It's called puberty.

You don't know how a kid will develop until they actually do.[/quote]

Although...it is exceedingly rare that a professional athlete didn't dominate at every age.

You will hear of them form time-to-time...a player like Jackson Merrill who barely made the JV team as a HS freshmen, but then went on to be a first MLB pick after his senior year in HS.

95% are players like Messi (trained at FC Barcelona starting at 5), or Freddie Freeman or Bryce Harper or again nearly all pro athletes that were dominant players at 5, 10, 15, etc.[/quote]

The actual point is the average Little League superstar is not going to grow up to be another Bryce Harper or Freddie Freeman.  A lot of these kids won’t even be on their HS teams, meanwhile coaches are ruining the game for all of the other average kids who just want to play.

Harper and Freeman would have been just fine regardless of whether or not their less talented teammates actually got to play regularly when they were kids.[/quote]

I don’t what to say.  Our HS team has two LLs that feed into it and the starting 8 were all on their 12u LL All Star teams from both of those leagues…with the five starting pitchers also 12u All stars in LL.

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You are missing the point.  It’s also, quite frankly, incredibly weird that you know the Little League history of all the kids in your High School.  (I assume there are NO former Little League all-stars who DIDN’T make the team, right?)  Some of you REALLY need to get a life.[/quote]

My kid is on the team...we have known all these kids for like 10+ years either as teammates or playing against each other.  Not weird at all.[/quote]

So what happened to the other Little League all stars who are not members of the starting 8?  By my math there are at least 8 former all stars who aren’t starting if your school pulls from two LLs.  Have they already been signed by MLB?

How did these all stars manage to continue to be good even if they played on teams that weren’t packed with all stars during the regular season?  Since it’s LL I’ll bet some of those scrubs even got a chance to bat or play in the infield occasionally!

And it is weird - I couldn’t tell you who my kid played against when he was 12 unless we independently knew the kid OR the kid was like a once in a generation, standout talent.  But I suppose there are a LOT of busybody parents in youth sports.

Seriously, though.  You are still missing the point.[/quote]

26 kids played on the two all star teams.  7 went private and play on their varsity teams…13 went public and are starters (8 position players and 5 pitchers)…6 play other sports.

You obviously never coached or were particularly involved with your kid’s baseball.  These kids played together for years and then many played on same travel teams for 13u and 14u.

The idea that the strongest kids at 12 aren’t strong later circulates like a bad penny.

The top local HS basektball teams (PVI, Gonzaga, Sidwell, Bullis…Teams that are top 20 in the country) all start looking at the top 12 year olds to try to recruit them to their high school. [/quote]

I’m sorry that I was not treating your scouting report on 12 year olds with the proper respect.  Clearly I am a bad, uninvolved parent.  And my idea that a kid who doesn’t hit the puberty lottery may already be pretty close to his maximum athletic potential in middle school is obviously misguided pseudoscientific coping.

Is that about right?[/quote]

Apology accepted.  Glad you accept you have your head up your ass and you can now move on.[/quote]

Do we have to appreciate guys like this, though?[/quote]

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