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Lots of money, little loyalty and no consistency. My son was with Teels for three years. It started out well with a solid training facility to get the kids ready to play their season. Unfortunately, it only went downhill from there. Our first season coach quit and was replaced by two well meaning young guys with little team coaching experience. The team enjoyed their time together but were not competitive for the most part and did not show much improvement overall. Year two, we had another coach with more experience who was committed and whom them boys liked playing for. They learned more that season, were competitive, played as a team and showed improvement. In year three, they combined two teams (A & B) into one and again (most of the boys) had yet another coach. While they learned at the facility, they didn’t get enough repetitions in field practice to improve small things like tracking a fly ball or prep steps in the infield. Fundamentals should be trained on the field and they did not get much of that to improve their skills. They were again not competitive that year or in Cooperstown. Then came the time for other boys (newcomers) to tryout for the fourth year team with the promise and policy that returning boys would retain their spot on the team. Well, they lied and cut boys that had been playing for Teels for years. The coach that was continuing has good baseball acumen and is a nice guy but lacks assessment skills and does not put in the work to train the boys on the field to improve. I don’t trust a one of them now since going back on their policy and doing it in a way where they tried to lie about how it happened. My son was a work in progress at the time but was committed from day one and didn’t deserve that treatment. He may never have been good enough or great but they robbed him of the chance to find out.
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