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Originally Posted by ctblu40
The whole mandatory play requirement chaps my a$$! IMO, this type of stuff just helps feed kids opinions of entitlement. If the kid is an all star, that doesn't mean he is just as good as his teammates!
Johnny, you want more playing time? Get better! How about a little extra batting practice, stay at the field with dad afterward and field some extra ground balls.
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The last all star team I coached won a state championship. The team had 13 players and the top 3 players were clearly better than the rest (these 3 were starters on D1 baseball teams in the spring). The difference between #4 and #12 was very small. And they all worked very hard and they all deserved playing time, which they got. We did not have a mandatory play requirement, but I worked hard to get them all some playing time. Oh, and you might wonder about #13, he was hand picked by me (league allowed the coach to pick the last 2 players from the top 8 vote getters who were not in the top 11 vote getters) to be a closer. He pitched the 6th in quite a few games, retired the side on 11 pitches in one of the state tournament games that we led 1-0 going into the bottom of the 6th. And at practice he worked hard at batting, and fielding just like everybody else but he knew what his job was and we would not have won without him, the 13th and final pick.