My son is 9 years old & just started playing baseball this year in January. He has taken to playing the game very exceptionally & had the highest batting average on his rec team this fall, selected All Star, etc & has been invited to join a few travel teams this summer. He is just as good or better than kids who have been playing 4, 5, 6 years. He started at short stop for his team & also pitched very well.
I played high school & college, but always worked night shift so was unable to really get him started in to anything until now. I'm self employed now & have all the time in the world to work with him, etc. Every day this summer at his urging we go to the field in the morning & I hit him some ground balls & we go to the batting cages in the evening & work on hitting.
Here is the dilemma I am facing at the moment. A kid who was on his rec ball team, his father coaches a local Universitys baseball team here & is starting a travel ball team for 9U starting in late August. He has been away the whole summer coaching a PECO's league independent baseball team. He comes back in a couple of weeks, when the PECOs season is over & will get everything started for his team. He's been a coach for over 20 years & has sent many kids to college & even a few drafted.
Rec ball ended for my son in early April so I needed somewhere for him to play until the next Rec season started so I went with a travel team coached by a guy who played professionally in Venezuela many years back. It started off shaky with a lot of kids leaving the team and the kids that stayed weren't the best, but I just needed somewhere for my son to play to keep him going so I stuck with it. The downside to this team is the coach is very money motivated (IE - offering his private lessons, etc).
The team he is on now with the Venezuelan Coach has some very good players now. The team is solid all around & my son plays shortstop, second & also pitchers. My son struggled a little with hitting for a few weeks & he didn't receive much, if any, hitting instruction from the Coach. It's like if you don't purchase additional time for a lesson with the Coach he won't correct any kind of hitting flaws, etc. Just the usual "keep your head in there" during soft toss or basic drills. No real correction as far as instruction goes. The kids that do purchase lessons from him do improve on their hitting, but I feel like if you're the head coach shouldn't you work with your players? Or am I supposed to purchase a lesson to get some help on his swing?
I need to figure out which avenue I am going to go down in the next few weeks. Do I keep him on a team that wasn't good when we started, but now has the pieces in place to be a very good team, but the Coach is money motivated or do I go on a team where the team is just starting & it is going to take time to get the pieces (like it did with the current team), but I think he will receive better instruction?
I played high school & college, but always worked night shift so was unable to really get him started in to anything until now. I'm self employed now & have all the time in the world to work with him, etc. Every day this summer at his urging we go to the field in the morning & I hit him some ground balls & we go to the batting cages in the evening & work on hitting.
Here is the dilemma I am facing at the moment. A kid who was on his rec ball team, his father coaches a local Universitys baseball team here & is starting a travel ball team for 9U starting in late August. He has been away the whole summer coaching a PECO's league independent baseball team. He comes back in a couple of weeks, when the PECOs season is over & will get everything started for his team. He's been a coach for over 20 years & has sent many kids to college & even a few drafted.
Rec ball ended for my son in early April so I needed somewhere for him to play until the next Rec season started so I went with a travel team coached by a guy who played professionally in Venezuela many years back. It started off shaky with a lot of kids leaving the team and the kids that stayed weren't the best, but I just needed somewhere for my son to play to keep him going so I stuck with it. The downside to this team is the coach is very money motivated (IE - offering his private lessons, etc).
The team he is on now with the Venezuelan Coach has some very good players now. The team is solid all around & my son plays shortstop, second & also pitchers. My son struggled a little with hitting for a few weeks & he didn't receive much, if any, hitting instruction from the Coach. It's like if you don't purchase additional time for a lesson with the Coach he won't correct any kind of hitting flaws, etc. Just the usual "keep your head in there" during soft toss or basic drills. No real correction as far as instruction goes. The kids that do purchase lessons from him do improve on their hitting, but I feel like if you're the head coach shouldn't you work with your players? Or am I supposed to purchase a lesson to get some help on his swing?
I need to figure out which avenue I am going to go down in the next few weeks. Do I keep him on a team that wasn't good when we started, but now has the pieces in place to be a very good team, but the Coach is money motivated or do I go on a team where the team is just starting & it is going to take time to get the pieces (like it did with the current team), but I think he will receive better instruction?
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