re: What Kind of Travel Ball frickery is this?

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1. The "8 yr old" batting looked to be the only kid on that field with a future. quote:Baseball player making the transition from 14U to play any form of HIGHSCHOOL baseball TEAM: Less than 76 in 100 or 75%Baseball --High school senior players who go on to play NCAA men`s baseball: Less than three in 50, or 5.6 percent -- NCAA senior players drafted by a Major League Baseball (MLB) team: Less than eleven in 100, or 10.5 percent. -- High school senior players eventually drafted by an MLB team: About one in 200, or 0.5 percent. Drafted baseball players almost always go to a minor league team. These teams abound; there are over 150 of them, compared to 30 in the majors. The big leagues have 750 players, yet the 2004 draft alone took 1,500. Hence some estimate that only one in 33 minor leaguers ever makes it to the pros. If that's correct, the chance of a high school player making the big leagues is one in 6,600, or 0.015 percent. That's roughly the chance of a thief guessing your PIN number on the first try.

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Not sure why you've posted this all to often realized truth about your kids and what they should be focusing 11 months/yr on unless you are mistaken in thinking my definition of "future" is anything you've listed above.
But since you've gone ahead and listed that, I will add to it what I saw in that video with respect to competitive baseball.

"get out in front of it, just like the cages"


i hated hearing my dad say this shite in the stands