softball parents suk wrote:I heard some of these top teams are picking up 96 players for the fall. Has anybody else heard that. I guess I can understand teams that can't compete, picking up a 96 player but why would a top team need to do that.
Maybe it’s a smaller player and the parents are hoping for a growth spurt between now and January?
Maybe the 96 parents don’t care about the age up in the Fall thing?
Seems to me that if the 96 parents would want their kids to move up so that they are not behind developmentally when they have to move up?
Maybe the 97 team is hoping some of these 75 12U teams are going to fold in the Fall and they can pick up players in Jan? Maybe the 96’s are just bandaids until then?
Maybe the 96’s didn’t make the local 14U team.
Maybe it’s a case of Friend Ball where the girls have always played together?
No matter the reason, it doesn’t make good sense for the team or the 96 players.