Unlike football, baseball and softball are sports where players can have some fun swapping positions. As a lefty first baseman, I used to love getting a few innings in at third or short or shagging some balls in the outfield. And every position player thinks they can pitch!
This little plot thread is absurd. The “coaching” teaches kids nothing other than “have fun!”
There is absolutely nothing “a little odd” in this scenario at all – on the contrary, in a week of “odd” little nitpicks, your nitpick here might take the cake as the “oddest” of them all.
whew, that’s a relief. Now I can actually enjoy reading a 30 year old comic strip. The world has shifted back on its axis.