re: Who actually likes “travel ball”

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Here’s my question? How many freshman do they cut that can really play? Is it a handful or a bunch? I’m trying to understand the scope of this situation. There is incredible baseball in SWLA but are 100s of kids doing what you are doing with your kids and not making high school teams because the coaches just want very small rosters?

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man its not really hundreds of kids to be honest

dunno how many they cut that can play, would imagine 5 or so, maybe 7-8 max.

so Calc Parish population is only 205k. you have barbe, st louis, sam houston sulphur, westlake, Iowa, Dequincey, vinton, lccp, hamilton that all have baseball teams. i think thats all of them.


westlake/iowa/dq/vinton get what they get due to the size and how the school boundries work. LCCP sucks and doesnt get anything. Hamilton is very small(great coach though) and has 7th/8th graders playing on the team.

also have grandlake and south beau that take some of these players, welsh & kinder too.

so you have total of 6 majors or aaa teams in the area for this class that is 14u. only about 4 that are good. 1 is all sulphur kids so really left with 3 good 14u teams, 1 lower lever aaa and 2 aa teams to make the rosters for the teams.

so what total of 40 kids? only 2 of those teams are majors and one has quite a bit of sulphur kids.

so you maybe have a true 30-35 kids this year to choose from, if that. lets say 25 little in LC or moss bluff. thats 20 kids between sam houston, st louis and barbe.

not a lot this year.



so like in 10u, there is one majors team, 4 aaa teams. thats it. thats at 10...you can imagine it will thin out by then. but it also fluctuates

the 13u area has 4 majors teams and 4 aaa. 12u has 1majors and 7 aaa. 11u has 1/5

understand...i am including teams in welsh and kinder in that as some LC kids play for those teams

so on the best year you are talking 80 aaa/majors kids between all schools to choice from


thats what people dont understand...these schools are doing it with not that many kids to choose from. whole parish is barely over 200k people and we had 2 champs and 6 in the semi and then you had westlake in quarters. then had kinder and south beau which are in the area in and grandlake in quarters.