Posted by: Willy Boy () on Fri Mar 7 10:14:39 2008

> I'm in a area that is restricting my kids from bumping up to coach pitch because they missed the cutoff date by a couple of months...justification is "it's our past practice not to" Last season they killed in t-ball, my concern is for the safety of other kids that might get in the way of a ball hit, how do you take a kids that can hit a pitched baseball and tell him to go back to the tee...go back to where you can only throw the ball to certain players…?
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> Any of you have any info on other leagues that allow kids to bump up based on ability as oppose to age?
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> There secondary reason is- "if we do it for you we have to for it for everyone”, “we don't want to open a can of worms..." Out of 300 sign ups, they have myself and one other parent asking to bump…?

I've been around a lot of baseball and softball players and parents. Every year I hear parents that want their kids to play in an older group because they are too good for the kids they are playing with.

I usually would disagree with moving kids up but from tee-ball to coach pitch I would make the change. Coach pitch will get the kid used to getting timing and developing an idea of the strike zone.

Your league needs to have the flexability to make these changes. Your kid will never be done hitting off the tee. That's part of baseball.

Good Luck