re: If the travel baller in your life has a birthday coming up

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you are in oklahoma, we are in LA and i was speaking of LA. and no you dont have to be on a majors team to make a HS team but if you want to make a team like Barbe and actually play...you better be playing against the best in the state

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Yeah I'm aware you're in LA and we're in OK. The top level of HS baseball I would think are pretty similar between the two states. As I mentioned, my kid is at one of the top programs in the largest classification in OK and is a starter at a premium position. Never played on a team above AA. Key is he was with good developmental coaches and he played against good competition.

Just making the point that a really good number of the boys you're seeing at 12u "grinding" and "doing the work" won't be 3 years later. And there are some outside of that group that will. Puberty is a huge thing and so is mental maturity and kids develop at different ages.