- Aug 21, 2020
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Hello,
DD is a 2nd year 12U player. She’s a lefty and can get on base often. She’s been working on her slapping since she saw it while she was a 10U. She slaps in school/rec games (14U rules) from the lead off spot as her default.
We’re on a good b-level travel team and we can win with our pitching and hitting, but she never gets the OK to slap even when we’re ahead by a lot, or more recently when we need to grind out runs and my DD could drag bunt. Coach and his wife (our scorekeeper) have made some off the cuff remarks that if she slapped, she’d get benched. Not going to upset the apple cart with only a month and a half of tournaments left, but DD is disappointed. I’ve told her we’re sticking it out now, but if the current coach takes over the 1st year 14U team in the organization, we’re not staying even if it’s one of the premier ones in the area.
That being said - does anyone have any tips for figuring out which teams/coaches actually value slapping skills? I’ve been asking around in our travel ball area and haven’t found a team that values or uses slappers. The only time we’ve run into them in tournament play was a team from out of our area and they out ran us and jumped on our left side defense.
Back to looking at tryout schedules in August.
Thanks!
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DD is a 2nd year 12U player. She’s a lefty and can get on base often. She’s been working on her slapping since she saw it while she was a 10U. She slaps in school/rec games (14U rules) from the lead off spot as her default.
We’re on a good b-level travel team and we can win with our pitching and hitting, but she never gets the OK to slap even when we’re ahead by a lot, or more recently when we need to grind out runs and my DD could drag bunt. Coach and his wife (our scorekeeper) have made some off the cuff remarks that if she slapped, she’d get benched. Not going to upset the apple cart with only a month and a half of tournaments left, but DD is disappointed. I’ve told her we’re sticking it out now, but if the current coach takes over the 1st year 14U team in the organization, we’re not staying even if it’s one of the premier ones in the area.
That being said - does anyone have any tips for figuring out which teams/coaches actually value slapping skills? I’ve been asking around in our travel ball area and haven’t found a team that values or uses slappers. The only time we’ve run into them in tournament play was a team from out of our area and they out ran us and jumped on our left side defense.
Back to looking at tryout schedules in August.
Thanks!
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