I am a big advocate of playing all the positions. When I went to college in Florida I had gotten a scholarship to play third base. After winning a job as the starting third baseman our second baseman tore his ACL by someone sliding into him on a double play. What were we to do? I told the coach I could play second base and my backup played third. I went on to be an All American second baseman.

I played all of the infield positions in high school and this allowed me to be versatile for my team.  I played shortstop, second base and third base in Pro Ball. This helps you to better understand the game because you as a player now know who should be covering the bags where people are going and you never know what position you are going to best at.

Try all positions and have fun. As you get older and are playing competitively you will start to lean to certain positions. The best weapon a coach is a player that can play multiple positions. If, for example, you only know how to play shortstop and the coach already has a very good shortstop, what happens? Bench maybe. But if you can easily slide over to second you then make the lineup. Play multiple positions!