While on the surface this looks like the big bad league is keeping a talented kid down for being "too good", how do you think the boys on the other teams feel having to face him? Minor sport is supposed to be about having fun and learning the game, not to get your ass handed to you by someone whose skills are far beyond those of his peers.
I gather from the article that the league told him to either play a position other than pitcher or move to a higher-level league where his skills wouldn't be so far ahead of everyone else. That seems completely fair to me; the league officials have to look out for the best interests of all the participants. Why are the parents refusing to put him in a league more suitable to his skill level? Maybe they just want to see their son dominate other kids.
As was pointed out earlier, Wayne Gretzky played minor hockey against older kids because he was far too talented to play against people his own age. Bumping this pitcher up to a higher-skill league seems like a perfectly acceptable solution.
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