Warriors Baseball

Players who participate on the Warriors have an opportunity to play a lot of baseball. One of the local travel coaches recently mentioned to me how the biggest difference between a travel and "recreational" player is the ability to adjust to playing so many games (that team has played 32 games so far). That got me thinking about how many games a Warriors' player has played so far this season. Let's take one of my Yankees' players, Lance Cardinal, as an example. Here's how many games Lance will play by the end of this week:

• Chicagoland Metro League games- 16
• Other Local Travel games- 3
• OYA Pony League games- 16
• OYA Pony League scrimmage games**- 3
• Warriors' scrimmage games**- 6
• TOTAL GAMES (including scrimmages**)- 44

**this includes only scrimmages played against other teams in a simulated game format.

And, the Warriors still have three more tournaments and other non-tournament games left to play through July.

Warriors baseball also offers players a much lower cost alternative than many of the other local travel options. The fee to play is a fraction (half or far less) than the other alternatives and does not involve any additional fundraising or mandatory sponsorship commitments.

I mention this perspective as something to be considered as players determine what they might wish to do as plans for the 2010 14U Warriors team are developed over the next month or two.