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Originally Posted by miked
At my high school, we had 3 teams. The Freshman team, the JV team, and the varsity team. The purpose of the freshman team was to develop the players who were not quite ready to compete with 16/17/18 year olds. The purpose of the JV team was to see who was ready to make the jump and who just needed to play for the sake of being on a team. I'll say right now, 26 players on a team is silly. This is not MLB and most kids who can pitch are probably also really good at another position. To develop, these kids needs ABs and innings, you won't get that with 26 kids.
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Yeah that seemed a bit much to me as well. That is why I mentioned that they had a similar number last year so I assume that is standard. I would say that we are probably +2 in roster size compared to most of the teams that we have played so far. The major difference is we have three quality starters who are comfortably going at least five of a regulation 7 inning game so if they are on, the bullpen becomes a luxury. That being said, I also remember having 12 players on a basketball team and struggling to find minutes based on their skills.
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