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re: My Non-travel ball playing nephew just made the HS baseball team
Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:00 pm to PrimeTime Money
Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:00 pm to PrimeTime Money
Man, when you have a 12 year old who's playing travel ball and going to a separate dedicated hitting or pitching coach during the week, that's way too much. In high school, you can make your own decisions I guess. High school ball is cheap or free, so if you want to supplement that coaching with a little more, that's fine. It's not really the same as paying a lot of money to play travel ball and then still paying more money because you deem the coaching that your child is getting inadequate.
Of course it's not everybody. However, it's always the case that the worst ones define the culture as we know it.
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Also, I'm not saying many parents don't take it too far. But those are specific parents, coaches, and teams. It's not travel ball as a whole.
Of course it's not everybody. However, it's always the case that the worst ones define the culture as we know it.
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Posted on 6/1/16 at 12:08 pm to hendersonshands
quote:Not all travel ball teams pay for a coach.
Man, when you have a 12 year old who's playing travel ball and going to a separate dedicated hitting or pitching coach during the week, that's way too much. In high school, you can make your own decisions I guess. High school ball is cheap or free, so if you want to supplement that coaching with a little more, that's fine. It's not really the same as paying a lot of money to play travel ball and then still paying more money because you deem the coaching that your child is getting inadequate.
Many of them are coaches by the dads on the team for free. Teams have to pay a tournament fee to play in tournaments.
Baseball academies have great instruction. They have former MLB players, former MLB hitting coaches, and pitching coaches, etc. And it's not like you're going every week. You might go twice a month. You take what you learned and practice until your next lesson.
You might pay $80 for an hour-long lesson. If you go twice a month, that's $160 per month for 1-on-1 instruction by a professional hitting coach.
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