[theboys]

Thanks for the input, Wiz. I understand completely where you're coming from. My son played on a travel baseball team at age 10. Ten! They played 52 games between March and the end of May. Way too much. Not only for the kids, but for the families, as well.

Your comment about fundamentals reminds me of something one of my coaches once told me. It went something like:

Learning a sport is like a series of hills and plateaus. As you learn a skill, you climb a hill. Once the skill is mastered you reach a plateau. To build new skills, you have to climb higher hills. At some point, if you haven't mastered the fundamental skills, you reach a plateau you can't get beyond. And, people who have mastered the fundamentals will climb right on past you.