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Never a straight answer
I've been a coach and a players' dad at this park and have never gotten a straight answer to that question. I'm guessing that many years ago the parents of less competitive players may have complained that their DDs could not hit the better pitchers. As you surmised, the number of players returning to this program does take a pretty steep dive between 14U and 16U for this, and some other, reasons. Not only do they lose some pretty good 16 y.o. pitchers, but many of the accomplished hitters move on because they are not being challenged. Worse yet, the assn. board is (and has always been) controlled by 'baseball' guys and (surprise!) there is no such age restriction on the guys.
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