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I am curious to hear feedback from other parents regarding the "honesty" by which school try-outs are being conducted and cuts are being made. There are no sour grapes on my end, but I've seen enough at the middle school and high school levels to raise questions in my own head. From my observations, a large majority of kids that make the cuts deserve to, but it seems that the coaches have predispositions regarding who they want even before the tryouts begin. For example, someone who is highly favored, but had a bad tryout day, gets a "free pass" while others who are less regarded, but who represented themselves well, are disregarded. The tryout periods are typically 5 to 6 days and the group activities and the limited individual exposure times make it difficult to weed out one player from the other, so my guess is that coaches at the middle school level get input from the little league level, and high school coaches from the middle school coaches, with additional consideration for prominence of travel baseball affiliations of each respective player. I could be wrong but politics, human nature, and ambition are oftentimes hard to separate. The solution is to strive to be so good that you avoid traveling through the muck.
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