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Been thinking a lot about this… if this progression was adopted across all recreational baseball we’d be creating more baseball lovers. Ages 4 and under: no baseball game play. Only practice/fun stuff if anything at all. I believe we are pushing kids away from the game exposing them too... show more
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I think leagues should just be a lot more flexible with skill level / size rather than strictly relying on ages. Plenty of seven year olds are way too skilled for tee ball. Plenty of 9 year olds are ready for kid pitch.

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Toying with the idea of starting a program where parents sign up on select days to come to a two hour session that would focus on fundamentals and then controlled scrimmages. Seen to many players not knowing the game and not getting quality reps in a game. 10U rec

Every league that would start this late with kid pitch would be behind unfortunately. My son is 9 and has seen mid 60s pitching for several years already playing up.

Maybe a little bit on pitching, but their hitting and game awareness and general participation and excitement about baseball could be much greater and that might be more important than having them excel early.

I've seen enough 9 year olds who can throw strikes with some oomph to push back there, but otherwise agree. Coached a coach pitch last night and it's generally complete chaos.

The parents are the problem. I have 5-6 year olds worried only about how they hit off of a machine. Paying swing coaches. Projecting their kids futures. All I want is for my son to listen, behave and improve at all aspects. Unfortunately, parents lose sight of what’s important

I agree overall! Could suggest 5-6 Tee ball, 7-8 Machine Pitch, 9+ kid pitch. Only issue with machine pitch is fields without power. If you want to do it right with a jr. hack attack & generator, that’s $3,300 per machine per field. Other machines have issues but can make do.

How to really do it: -Scale down the field. Every age can pitch, and homer, at the right distances. -Big strike zone. Walks result in 1 swing with tee. -Embrace rubber ball early on. For safety, and for ball return. -5v5 at age 5. 6v6 at age 6... 9v9 at age 9 and up.

I disagree with the 6-7 year olds in tee ball. My daughter is 6 and two years of tee ball in 1st and 2nd grade would 1) be boring 2) limit her ability to hit moving balls. We never played tee ball. Compared to doing soccer basketball etc. tee ball is the worst way to introduce the sport. In my opinion. I agree with just start playing at 6 and if you have a quality machine. Like a jr hack attack. Let 6-8 be machine pitch in game. More competitive. More consistency with pitches. Hitters hit moving ball.

At the tee ball level I’d like to see team sizes reduced to 5-6 kids per team and no outfielders. They will all just run after it anyways. More kids in the infield will keep them more into what is going on.
