Is Baseball Factory legit or just a money grab?

[Anonymous]

Anyone with personal experience? Wondering if it's even worth looking into based on all the spam emails. And how are they even getting DC's info? I'm guessing from tournament registrations?

[Anonymous]

Money grab. Once your kid does a perfect game, PBR, or some other event, they start spamming you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Money grab. Once your kid does a perfect game, PBR, or some other event, they start spamming you.

That’s what I thought. Thanks for the sanity check.

[Anonymous]

The owner and CEO is a total ......

it's all about revenue

[Anonymous]

Yep, just chiming in to echo others. Total money grab. Avoid.

[Anonymous]

I'm not sure what you mean by money grab - my son has gone to their events in Florida (5 day long camp, basically) and he has LOVED it. Baseball 24-7 with other kids who love to play. He has a group chat with the boys from around the country he met last summer, and they still talk baseball. He's going again this year.

Is it expensive? Heck yes. But no more expensive than specialized flute camp or theater camp or whatever.

[Anonymous]

I've known the owner for 25 years. He loves baseball and cares about the kids. If your kid is serious about baseball, he can help get visability and recruiting looks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've known the owner for 25 years. He loves baseball and cares about the kids. If your kid is serious about baseball, he can help get visability and recruiting looks.

Much of baseball these days are money grabs. That is why there are so many adults running teams now. The travel clubs get money from the parents, pay the tournament hosts registration fees, and the tournament hosts pay college coaches to show up. These combine things are the worst.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've known the owner for 25 years. He loves baseball and cares about the kids. If your kid is serious about baseball, he can help get visability and recruiting looks.

Much of baseball these days are money grabs. That is why there are so many adults running teams now. The travel clubs get money from the parents, pay the tournament hosts registration fees, and the tournament hosts pay college coaches to show up. These combine things are the worst.

Yes, youth baseball has become a business. I’m not sure it is one that is terribly lucrative - maybe one or two owners of these big places make a six figure income, but the coaches, trainers, tournament directors, etc are making blue collar wages. Would the world be nicer if baseball was still the sandlot? Yeah, maybe. But it’s not. And as a mom of a baseball-mad teenager who can only envision a career in baseball and refuses to consider anything else, I wish there was a middle-class income open to him. There really isn’t. Which brings me back to baseball being a money grab. If it is, who is grabbing all that money? When you do the math you realize how little each coach is making. You wouldn’t work for that wage.

[Anonymous]

,

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The owner and CEO is a total ......

it's all about revenue

Known him for 30 years. He's a good guy and loved baseball, but it's a company. Of course he wants to make money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've known the owner for 25 years. He loves baseball and cares about the kids. If your kid is serious about baseball, he can help get visability and recruiting looks.

Much of baseball these days are money grabs. That is why there are so many adults running teams now. The travel clubs get money from the parents, pay the tournament hosts registration fees, and the tournament hosts pay college coaches to show up. These combine things are the worst.

Yes, youth baseball has become a business. I’m not sure it is one that is terribly lucrative - maybe one or two owners of these big places make a six figure income, but the coaches, trainers, tournament directors, etc are making blue collar wages. Would the world be nicer if baseball was still the sandlot? Yeah, maybe. But it’s not. And as a mom of a baseball-mad teenager who can only envision a career in baseball and refuses to consider anything else, I wish there was a middle-class income open to him. There really isn’t. Which brings me back to baseball being a money grab. If it is, who is grabbing all that money? When you do the math you realize how little each coach is making. You wouldn’t work for that wage.

Youth baseball is a money grab, and with two boys having gone through the recruiting process, it is getting worse. But it can be navigated. We never did the $1500 Showball type showcases (not sure how much Baseball Factory is), but we picked a couple other less expensive ones, went on school visits and did some one on ones with coaches. It became pretty clear, if you are good, you can get school’s attention without shelling out $$$$.

[Anonymous]

Money grab

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've known the owner for 25 years. He loves baseball and cares about the kids. If your kid is serious about baseball, he can help get visability and recruiting looks.

Much of baseball these days are money grabs. That is why there are so many adults running teams now. The travel clubs get money from the parents, pay the tournament hosts registration fees, and the tournament hosts pay college coaches to show up. These combine things are the worst.

Yes, youth baseball has become a business. I’m not sure it is one that is terribly lucrative - maybe one or two owners of these big places make a six figure income, but the coaches, trainers, tournament directors, etc are making blue collar wages. Would the world be nicer if baseball was still the sandlot? Yeah, maybe. But it’s not. And as a mom of a baseball-mad teenager who can only envision a career in baseball and refuses to consider anything else, I wish there was a middle-class income open to him. There really isn’t. Which brings me back to baseball being a money grab. If it is, who is grabbing all that money? When you do the math you realize how little each coach is making. You wouldn’t work for that wage.

PG, PBR, Showball, recruitment advisors, the schools who pay their volunteer coaches with camp fees.

Have you been to a big PG event? They’re making money from the hotels, from team fees, from $70 per person entry fees to WATCH, from fees to see scores online, from $1000 evals before the tourney starts. They’re staffed by kids and half the time don’t provide enough balls to get through a game. It is obscene.

Like pp said, a well connected coach and a couple targeted college camps are sufficient if the kid is looking at the right level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've known the owner for 25 years. He loves baseball and cares about the kids. If your kid is serious about baseball, he can help get visability and recruiting looks.

Much of baseball these days are money grabs. That is why there are so many adults running teams now. The travel clubs get money from the parents, pay the tournament hosts registration fees, and the tournament hosts pay college coaches to show up. These combine things are the worst.

Yes, youth baseball has become a business. I’m not sure it is one that is terribly lucrative - maybe one or two owners of these big places make a six figure income, but the coaches, trainers, tournament directors, etc are making blue collar wages. Would the world be nicer if baseball was still the sandlot? Yeah, maybe. But it’s not. And as a mom of a baseball-mad teenager who can only envision a career in baseball and refuses to consider anything else, I wish there was a middle-class income open to him. There really isn’t. Which brings me back to baseball being a money grab. If it is, who is grabbing all that money? When you do the math you realize how little each coach is making. You wouldn’t work for that wage.

Youth baseball is a money grab, and with two boys having gone through the recruiting process, it is getting worse. But it can be navigated. We never did the $1500 Showball type showcases (not sure how much Baseball Factory is), but we picked a couple other less expensive ones, went on school visits and did some one on ones with coaches. It became pretty clear, if you are good, you can get school’s attention without shelling out $$$$.

My experience is "good"...means like top 1% of all baseball players. My kid plays on a team with one of those...they get invited to play in the national PG all star game that is televised on ESPN, invited to MLB exclusive invite-only showcases, etc. They don't have to pay anything because they are wanted by everyone.

Alternatively, I also agree with you if you are just targeting D3 schools (though maybe not the schools making it far in the D3 national tournament)...especially the Northeast high academic D3s (assuming you have the grades/test scores). You can directly reach out to those coaches and if you have decent stats for a D3 player, they will respond.