Stay or go?
My daughter is a 10u pitcher. Last year her team had a pretty long break so we tried picking up. We picked up with a team and played some really good competition and did really well. We continued to pickup with the same people through the rest of the season. At the end of the fall season we decided that it was time to leave her team and join this team we had been picking up with because she was ready for the next level of competition.
Over the winter break we started attending practices with this new team and things were going well. They consider her the ace pitcher and she gets plenty of time in the circle. When our first tournaments roll around my daughter was basically being treated as a pitcher only. There are 10 girls on the team, and one tournament she sat over half of all the innings. She only played defense 3 innings where she wasn’t pitching. We talked to the coach and he agreed to rotate her in more. They play her in the outfield more now and she doesn’t sit nearly as often but still disproportionately more than all but maybe one other girl.
One tournament she made an error and was pulled after that inning. The girl they replaced her with made an error and she was pulled and my daughter was put back. The infield has two girls the routinely make errors but continue to play in the same positions and never sit.
Our most recent tournament we had two games on Friday night and had to miss the first one for her elementary track meet. We arrive a few minutes before the start of the second game. They put her at the end of the batting lineup, which was totally fine. However, we had two pickup players and they played the whole game over my daughter and another regular player. We left frustrated and reached out to the coach who gave us a bunch of excuses about not being warm but would have used her if they needed her to pitch. One of the four coaches talked to her that night and they didn’t warm her up.
One girl left the team this week and our daughter is asking to leave too. Should we try sticking it out the rest of the season? Or just leave because it probably won’t get better and what we see now is what we get?