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

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Coordination also. Some kids peak at 9, some peak at 19. I see people on FB bitching constantly that had kids play on majors teams who end up riding the bench in HS because someone passed them up later in life. Bigger, stronger, more coordinated, still love the game after not playing 100 games a year, etc

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This is not the case for long. High School seniors now were kind of on the front side of large scale travel ball in La. Yes it did exist, but not like it has become. So you had a bunch of guys that were on teams just a few years ago with no travel in their back ground.

In my sons brief HS career I see the travel kids seperating themselves by playing the game better. There are players that can hit, throw and field...but when the game starts the ones that have competed at a high level seem to be seperating themselves.