Beware the scary 10U players filling in in 12U

Eric F said:

SoCal_Dad said:

When a team is playing short-handed, they have to take an out whenever the empty spot come up in the line-up.

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For us (10U ASA), the lineup at the start of the game is the determining factor, not the full-season roster of the whole team. If we turn in a lineup card of 8 players before the game, then we are expected to bat 8 players for that game. The only way there's a out for a missed AB is if one of those 8 misses her turn.

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Katsfan59 said:

22 hours? Is this normal for AZ. travel teams? What age group?

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Eric F said:

In hindsight, I can see that my previous response was based solely on my own experience, and a bit too harsh. Our league is currently blessed with a pretty deep talent pool (especially in 10U) and we don't have situations where we are struggling to find someone - anyone - that can pitch decently. I respect those who will do whatever it takes to keep the games going in less-than-ideal situations. I can see that sometimes this might require the situations described by you and SoAZDad. My apologies.

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CPEM said:

I, for one, am very against this. The league needs to sink or swim with the players they have. What better opportunity is there for the league to develop other pitchers? Instead, they are being lazy and using your daughter as a crutch. Our league went through this a year ago, where all the top talent in the 12u group took off to form a TB team. It forced girls like my DD to step up their game and no longer be satisfied with playing with the dandelions in the outfield. We went 3-12 in games against other leagues. But the progression made by those girls over the course of the season set them up to make a good run in all-stars that bought them a berth in the state tournament, something that star-studded group of players from the previous season that left wasn't able to accomplish.

Now, this season, several of the leagues around us are experiencing the same problems we were last year. All their talent took off for TB, and they didn't spend enough time coaching up their lower level players. And rather than try to improve what they have, at least one league is doing as your league is doing: importing TB players to help them out during the regular season. I don't get wanting to win a regular rec season game that badly that you have to import talent from TB rather than using the opportunity to get your dedicated rec ball players more experience. What makes it even worse is because of stipulations like your daughter's, this league has now canceled several games with us and other leagues because their TB talent is unavailable (because they are at practice for their TB team). Ridiculous.

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