I just need to vent. My daughter plays 11U travel ball. Her team is B level, at best. They struggle against most B level teams, but handle a lot of C level teams pretty easily.
I am so sick of teams bringing in ringers for tournaments. They are 11 year olds. This is insane. Every single tournament, you can check Facebook and see multiple teams registered for tournaments making posts about how they are “looking for a pitcher for a tournament”. Just play with the damn team that you have. Stop picking up these girls throwing fire just to win damn tournaments. Does it really mean THAT much to you??
Last tournament we were in, we saw a team make this exact post, and someone replied saying “my daughter XXXX can pitch”. Sure enough we face this team in the first bracket game, their pitcher basically strikes out our whole damn team, and of course you hear the coaches saying “great job XXXX!” To their pitcher. Great job. Your team didn’t beat us, the one girl you picked up to pitch beat us.
Just checked Facebook and wouldn’t ya know it, another team we play in a week and a half is “looking for a pitcher”. Wow. Crazy.
I just don’t get it. Am I in the minority here? How fun can it be watching your girls practice all year long and come together as a team, just to have your coach bring in some ringer pitcher and take away playing time from your kid??
End of rant.