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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They typically play on well regarded showcase teams that play in the large perfect game or PBR events [/quote]

Do the well regarded showcase teams not cost a lot of money?  How does a normal person even know which teams to try out for?[/quote]

Go the the Perfect Game website and look at the team rankings by age group.  The top 20-30 teams are legitimately incredible teams...after that, the rankings get a little wonky and subjective (but they are still loaded with D1 commits).

It all depends how good you are whether it costs a lot of money or not.  As an example, Bryce Harper paid $0 to play for these teams in HS because they all wanted him to play for their team in these national tournaments.

So, for the 50-100 top HS players in the country it is reasonable...but everyone else is paying.  Everyone else pays up to play on these teams because they are hoping the reputation of the team and the exposure of their super-star teammates will rub off on them with a Power 5 D1 commitment.[/quote]

Thanks to you and PP for the in depth answers.  We’re no longer in the area (in a NE non-ideal baseball climate unfortunately) but have a soon-to-be freshman who is pretty serious and has always been a good player.  Not sure how talented he actually is or if he’s merely always been the big fish in a small pond, but on the off chance he’s got any sort of future in this just trying to figure out reasonable next steps to take (if any).[/quote]

FYI...if you are trying to get your kid recruited, then you need to pay attention to teams that get kids recruited.

Again, not talking about these Top national teams where the kids are all incredible and every college coach is watching...but call it the teams ranked #50 and below.

It's not enough for a team to be good, the coaches also have to work the phones and have to care about getting their players seen by coaches, even if it means they lose the game.  In other words, if the Ivy league coaches can only come to a game against some super team...your coach still plays kids that are Ivy league material, but not Power 5 material.

Your team may lose...they might get blown out...doesn't matter.  The Ivy coaches will know that a kid throwing 90 is going to get hammered by a kid that may be a 1st round MLB pick (and is 5x better than any kid playing on their existing roster)...that's life.  However, there is no point in an Ivy league coach coming to watch your LSU commit in a pitching duel with a UNC commit...neither of those kids are playing at Harvard.[/quote]

And this is where Baseball Factory comes in. Because most of our kids (including PP above with the 8th grader) aren’t in the top 100 players, aren’t going to make one of the national showcase teams, and aren’t going to play D1 ball. My kid is really good. He’s still just on the bubble between D1 and D3, and because he wants to play and not ride the bench he’ll go D3. How do you get on the radar of a coach? How do you get your email read when there are hundreds of emails in the coach’s inbox, and there are hundreds of kids at each showcase. A recruitment service can help, and it your kid cares enough and you can afford it, it could be worth it.[/quote]

I don't know much about Baseball Factory's product offerings.  I know their showcase events are expensive and I thought were geared more towards D1 kids.

You should look into Headfirst, Showball and those camps.  Also, a decent travel team (e.g., in the DMV a team like Bradley) should have D3 connections.  They may be more Gettysburg or local DMV D3 schools vs. Williams.

Go look at the schools attending Headfirst and Showball...they complement each other.  It's kind of a racquet where each group pays off the coaches to attend their camp exclusively.  So, one will have 4 of the Ivy schools and the other has other 4 Ivy schools.  One has Williams, Pomona etc. and the other has Trinity, Haverford, etc.

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