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bc in travel, reps are spread out so more kids are forced to pitch and get teams through pool games etc (which is good when kids need reps and development). His little rec league is dominated by these LL losers where ironically at rec, none of the shite kids are having opportunities to develop where that's what rec was supposed to be for. kids are learning a lot striking out at 46 ft twice a game.

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This is pretty spot on, the pitchers often pitch complete games before maxing pitch counts, low amount of games per week keeps their availability high. You have to face the best pitcher you know at 46 feet multiple times. You see the same kid in travel tournament, he goes 2-3 innings max and survive him. Also, they are not always good at slide step and pick offs so much less effective from the stretch than a full windup every pitch regardless of runners on base who can’t steal until it touches the catchers mitt in LL.

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Say that louder for the rec dads in the back

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Boy, I’m not a rec dad. Just explaining rec ball was more difficult to be a hitter than any of these travel games we do.

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Maybe we do things different down here

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That’s weird the “down here” teams have some fantastic LLWS teams too. If you own a tv, check em out.

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Play PG in Houston and you'll see it all day everyday. Shoot, just a regular 2D Select Series weekend in Louisiana in Open/Majors

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I know and believe it. Isn’t it crazy for $150 you can get 12 games where you’ll see an equivalent of a 76mph pitch in little league from 50 feet mounds? Quite a discount for experience like that.

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but your point is trash

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My kids are the ones making the claim. He said getting used to the crazy 46 mound made travel until varsity feel like it was on easy mode as he hasn’t had to have a quick of a reaction time until this varsity season. Both of my kids are very good and have had many more travel games than little league so seems like they’d know.

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In a lot of areas, particularly in the southeast, rec ball has gone to complete shite and you've got kids that truly don't even know how to play, much less possess a modicum of athleticism or baseball potential. Travel ball has killed rec ball in a lot of places. Good to see it's still alive and well in others though

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I never said the other kids could play :). A few but it’s pretty dreadful in other areas. To your point. Great experience though with that pitching.

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2 games a week. Same 2 kids are throwing 95% of games. Lot of kids not getting opportunities to pitch. Very little hitting reps. Sounds awful.

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Yea if you are concerned your son is going to afraid to bat you need to get him in travel. Much more often it’s dreadful pitching and farther back mounds. Be careful entering rec man. It’s elite,

I live in a little league area. The rec teams were more competitive than Travel ball.

Why? Pitching.

Our area competes for the Little League World Series. The very best pitchers/players in the area join Rec for Little League World Series. They also are all on the same travel team but split up pitchers on different Rec teams.

The Mounds are 46 feet back. The pitching speeds from 3 pitchers topped in the 68-70mph range. The other 3 are, for some reason, throwing crazy curveballs and sliders. Full command.

You see nothing like it in 90% of travel games.

My son, who now plays varsity, says this is the first time some pitchers are as hard to hit as Little League. The 46 foot mound is insane when hitting near 70mph compared to 60ft mounds for teenagers.

Put your kids in rec if they have a setup like this. They'll see the best pitchers at the shortest distance mounds. Crazy reaction time is needed and will put travel ball in "easy mode".

TL;DR: I have 2 boys - 24 total 12u rec games and 250 travel games (9u to 16u). The elite 12u, 46ft mounds rec pitchers, were the hardest pitches to hit until varsity baseball.

Pretty funny seeing comments that Xterra's sucked but the Frontier is good!

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Time to visit that YouTube hitting coach again

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Ivey, like Kaepernick before him, are just using their cause as a shield against termination

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Kaepernick opted out of his last year of his 49ers contract to enter free agency forgoing 13 million dollars to test the waters