I've seen a lot of youth baseball and I don't think I've seen a lot of plucky try hards out perform the natural athletes.
I’ve read you and sd’s convo, and would agree to a point. Depends on how raw the talented team/players are, and how trained the less talented kids are. My son’s (now disbanded) team was more athletic as a whole than probably any team they played for the better part of the three seasons they were all together. They played mostly 12u when they were 11 so that was the exception.
We routinely lost games to less athletic, more trained teams.
Is more trained code for better coached?
I don’t think so. Good baseball players generally become good from 80% work outside of their actual work with the team/coach.
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As a former guitar teacher (starting at age 14
), I've observed the same. The kids who practiced between lessons magically got better. Those who didn't, I was getting paid to babysit.
I was really good at sports when being good at sports meant having the ability to pay attention and understand the rules. Once that shifted, I decided to go pro in something other than sports.