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

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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.

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na apparently not. you are not making a team like catholic, west monroe, barbe, jesuit etc etc by playing aa ball. aa ball here is not good after age 10. gets really bad after 12, like really bad. the majors kids will be throwing 58-65 at 10, 60-70 at 11u, 68-75 at 12, 75+ at 13 where the AA kids may still be throwing 55 or below at 12u.

now i will say we got our asses tore up a couple weeks ago by a kid throwing no harder than 46-47 at 11u. we were not used to it and could not adjust. kid is really good though on everything else.

but in general, yea by 12, you better be playing aaa ball atleast or you just wont see the competition that it takes to develop skill wise

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I’ve said it many times most these kids will be done by 9th grade . Parents will be full of excuses so will the kid . You’ll have a handful that start at varsity within the 4 years . A couple will play juco . Even less play D-1 . Pro baseball get real . I’m sure you might have seen one but it’s not your kid

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100%. tons of kids get weeded out especially in high school. all the sudden everyone is good, everyone is taking private lessons, lifting, doing bat speed, velo training etc etc and if you do not actually like practicing baseball and everything that comes with it, then it will eat you up and spit you out and your parents will be blaming a coach for sucking the love of the game out of it.