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legacy
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 Posted - 08/13/2011 : 20:21:48
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| son plays high aaa / major ball and has been offered a position on a couple of teams -- has also been offered position on high school feeder team. at 14u what is the best direction to go and can you play both? |
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itsaboutbb
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Posted - 08/13/2011 : 23:44:43
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Originally posted by legacy
son plays high aaa / major ball and has been offered a position on a couple of teams -- has also been offered position on high school feeder team. at 14u what is the best direction to go and can you play both?
Some feeder teams are AA at best. Do your homework you could end up going backwards. |
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12uCoach
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Posted - 08/14/2011 : 19:01:53
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| Play for a coach who will develop the player. Don't play for the name on the uniform. |
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thebruce827
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Posted - 08/14/2011 : 21:49:21
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| We have played both Major travel and feeder. The Major travel was high stakes tournament win or go home baseball. The feeder team was a prayer before every game lead by a player. At the end of the day we may not end up with a first round draft pick but I know we will have a great young man. I would not call that going backwards. |
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oldmanmj
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Posted - 08/14/2011 : 22:59:24
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| thebruce, great stuff. We have had that also for many years at the Major Elite level travel ball. I think the question and answers are very general. In most situtations, feeder baseball doesn't help a good player continue to develop his skills as a player. In most situations, it does not help a young man become a better person either. Generally speaking you are better off paying for private instructions during the fall, than playing for your feeder team. I have also never played fall travel ball and had it be cut throat win at all costs. Most of us understand the level of competition during the fall is diminished my multi-sport athletes. Time to get better and work out the kinks, slow down and get healthy. I don't waste my time any more with volunteer dads trying to win brownie points and give their sons playing time they would never get during the spring season. Speaking in generalities and something I have seen first hand in 6 states east, west and south. Good luck. |
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thebruce827
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Posted - 08/15/2011 : 09:23:30
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oldmanmj,
You are 100% correct on what you said. The part I liked about the feeder team was we got to play on a lot of high school fields. The group of people we played with were good people. We did get additional instruction too. The other thing that they did was to emulate the high school schedule. We played weekday games and very little tournament ball. That took a while to get used to.
We are not on a fall team this year for the first time ever and it is strange. We do workouts with an instructor two times a week and now with the school twice a week too. We just miss the games.
Around here the feeder teams seem to be about AA level from what we have seen but it looks like they are improving. |
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bbmom2
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Posted - 08/16/2011 : 21:57:47
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We played feeder and travel. As the feeder team, we saw some really really good baseball. Some of the feeder teams were major teams and some were barely All Star quality. We played on the really beautiful high school fields and we played on some fields that were so uneven, the outfielders looked as though they did not have legs. We were under no illusion that playing for this team would give him a leg up for high school. It will just depend upon your area and the talent. For the most part, I would say go to travel given the opportunity, but don't discount all the feeder teams playing ability as they will surprise you.
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