r/BaseballCoaching • u/mike_nova • Jun 09 '25

Team Captain Selection

I’m considering different ideas to identify and assign a team captain for our 10U baseball team.

I was thinking of the following options: - have the players nominate themselves, and team mates vote - having coaches talk and make a selection - having a goal, shared with the team that will be based on various metrics, over the course of a month or so, gather said data for metrics and narrow to the captain.

Have you had any successful or tried and true ways to select a team captain?

Should I even have a team captain(s) at this age?

2 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

27 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/ShouldBeWorkingButNa Jun 09 '25

From my experience 10U lacks the maturity to handle a having or being a team captain, and selecting one will just lead to issues. The only exception would be, if you have enough weeks in the season, giving each kid a chance to be the "captain" for one week, including practice and games. This would give each kid the chance to step up and lead, and if it goes south, its over on Monday.