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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not making a baseball team is often a blessing in disguise. Baseball is a huge time suck, particularly if you are a bench player. I enjoyed watching my kids play up until middle school, but was glad they didn't want to try to do baseball in high school.

It is so much better for mental health to do a sport that is more physically active like track or swimming. 
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And odds are- if a kid is borderline to make the team, he is going to be a bench player and that probably will not change much. Some kids are fine with that, but it is a huge time commitment.

My son made the team as a freshman & didn’t play much. Probably would’ve made the team again the next year (and again, probably would not have played much). Instead, he switched to a no-cut sport that he enjoyed, and had so much more free time to spend on other extracurriculars.

Getting cut is probably has a lot of upside, even if the kid and his mom don’t see it that way right now. [/quote]

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