Guides and reporting on youth baseball across New England.
August 11, 2026
Two Tulsa National teams removed from Little League regionals, a protest alleging a travel roster in a town's uniform, and a court order putting them back on the field. Why a Massachusetts parent should pay attention.
August 8, 2026
What cage time actually costs in New England, why almost nobody publishes their rates, and how to spend an hour in a cage so it makes a player better rather than just tired.
August 8, 2026
Two stamps, two very different bats, and one expensive mistake. Which leagues take which, how to read the barrel, and how much the performance gap actually is.
August 7, 2026
Full-size field, 60 feet 6 inches, 90-foot bases. What happens when a twelve-year-old who dominated the small diamond arrives on a real one.
August 7, 2026
Two organizations, the same 12-and-under players, two different games. Leading off, field size, age cutoffs, boundaries and the July tournament — compared straight.
August 7, 2026
USA Baseball, USSSA 1.15 BPF, BBCOR — which stamp your league requires, what gets pulled from the game, and why the expensive bat in the bag might be the illegal one.
August 7, 2026
Every Cal Ripken division from 8U to 12U — mound distance, base paths and fence depth — plus the 50/70 change that catches most 12U parents by surprise.
August 7, 2026
50 feet from the rubber to the plate, 70 feet between the bases. Leadoffs, pickoffs and balks arrive all at once — and it is the biggest jump a young player makes.
August 6, 2026
A ten-year-old hits it 200 feet in a USSSA tournament and 160 in his Little League game on Tuesday. Nothing about him changed. The bat did.
August 5, 2026
The Agent, the Fence Coach, the Statistician, the Uber and the Vibes Parent. One of them is you, and you already know which.
August 5, 2026
ERA measures your defense. Wins measure nothing. Strike percentage measures the one skill that decides youth games — and you can count it from the stands.
August 5, 2026
Over 45 at-bats, a genuinely .300 hitter will finish anywhere between .160 and .440. Same kid, same swing. Here's what to look at instead.
August 2, 2026
Ninety minutes, forty kids, and a very small sample. What coaches are actually watching, the handful of things a player controls, and what parents should do.
August 2, 2026
Your kid's team enters as 11U AA and loses 15-2 to an 11U Major. Same age, completely different sport. Here's how the classifications work.
August 2, 2026
Usually yes — the rules are looser than families assume and the scheduling is harder. Here's how it works, and the one question to ask before you register.
August 2, 2026
No. And a meaningful share of what families spend between nine and thirteen is spent on the belief that someone is watching.
August 2, 2026
This isn't an argument against club baseball. It's the list of costs that don't appear on the registration page, from someone with no team to fill.
August 2, 2026
The gap between a good program and a poor one at the same price is enormous. Roster size, who's really coaching, and the questions to get answered in writing.
August 2, 2026
Loving the game isn't a readiness signal — nearly every nine-year-old loves it. Here's what actually separates a kid who thrives in a club program from one it grinds down.
August 2, 2026
The number on the registration page is between half and two-thirds of what you'll really spend. Here's the all-in math, and the questions to ask before you commit.
August 2, 2026
The line between the A team and the B team is thinner than the label suggests, it moves constantly, and it's drawn using information that has almost nothing to do with who your kid will be at sixteen.
August 2, 2026
In New England you get four months where baseball is impossible outdoors. The winter is where development actually happens — but almost none of it looks like baseball.
August 1, 2026
The curveball gets blamed for youth arm injuries, but ASMI's biomechanics research found pitch type barely matters. Here's what actually predicts injury in young pitchers — and what to ask your league.
August 1, 2026
Town ball, travel, fall ball, winter lessons. No single commitment is unreasonable — together they add up to a child who hasn't stopped throwing in fourteen months. What the research says about overuse.