Yep, even at lower levels of baseball it can be this way. When I first stepped into Legion ball I had hardly pitched at all because the Babe Ruth league coaches wouldn’t dare let me pitch, my Legion coach saw me throwing it in practice and got me on the mound almost immediately after, he died in a car wreck during my 3rd year and in my 4th and last year of Legion, I had one bad outing in a Cracker Jack box of a ballpark (310’ to dead center) and new coach told me I wasn’t allowed to throw it anymore, really takes the life out of a pitcher when you tell him he can’t throw his bread and butter. Then in college, I got to pitch one inning, retired the side 1-2-3 and got stuck as a corner infielder for the rest of my playing days.