- Jul 28, 2008
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High School vs Travel Ball
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I picked a bad week to quit coffee...Don't mind me.
I agree that there are excellent travel coaches and I constantly tell my Dad (he coaches another HS team) that the travel players are more sound when it comes to fundamentals and are definitely more competitive.
Maybe I am jealous of the fact that travel does get more committed players then HS teams. If my schedule would allow I would coach a travel team, but until my son gets to the HS level I could not commit to being away every weekend coaching tourneys.
High school in our area is actually pretty good. However, the depth of the teams falls quite a bit short from travel ball teams. We have quite a few outstanding pitchers in our area (pretty much all play competitive in the spring/summer. Our high school ball is in the fall (starts next week).
Generally, the high school teams that have the majority of their players on travel teams in the summer are the strongest. My daughter has only two or three that play in the summer. Fortunately, the two or three are all pitchers, which helps us compete.
Pitching speed has very little to do with anything..I've seen very good high school teams get befuddled by slow throwing junk pitchers.
Generally, the high school teams that have the majority of their players on travel teams in the summer are the strongest. My daughter has only two or three that play in the summer. Fortunately, the two or three are all pitchers, which helps us compete.
Pitching speed has very little to do with anything..I've seen very good high school teams get befuddled by slow throwing junk pitchers.
- Jul 27, 2008
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Our area has extremely good HS teams and some not so good.
We moved from Tucson years ago to the east coast and I was really worried about the caliber of HS ball. No worries!
Matter of fact one of our local HS teams almost became the unofficial "National Champs" They were something like 34-1, beating some of the top HS from California. Ranked #1 for awhile. There one loss came in the State championship game from a rival HS about 100 or so miles away!
We moved from Tucson years ago to the east coast and I was really worried about the caliber of HS ball. No worries!
Matter of fact one of our local HS teams almost became the unofficial "National Champs" They were something like 34-1, beating some of the top HS from California. Ranked #1 for awhile. There one loss came in the State championship game from a rival HS about 100 or so miles away!
