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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=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. [/quote]

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.[/quote]

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.[/quote]

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, [b]if you are good, you can get school’s attention without shelling out $$$$.[/b]  [/quote]

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.[/quote]

DP and a genuine question:

How does this top 1% kid get all this attention in the first place?  Who is looking at him and then inviting him to all of these games and showcases?

To me it sounds like a chicken or egg question.  At some point, a kid had to be in a position to get noticed.  How does that generally happen?  Is it just luck?[/quote]
They get noticied because it's obvious how good they are compared to everyone else. They also have elite measurables like size, height, and speed.

If you look and play like Aaron Judge in highschool then you could play highschool ball and someome would notice and come ask you to play travel. Unfortunately for 99.99% of kids don't have that athleticism or power. [/quote]

Most of these kids also come from CA, FL, TX, GA and play in areas where some connected coaches know if they have the next Aaron Judge or just a really good player.

Considering 40% of the 1st and 2nd round MLB picks are HS players, it's hard to go completely under the radar if you are that good.

I did listen to a podcast by some guy who helps kids get recruited to D1 programs.  He mentioned that the only complete outlier situation he ever had was he was asked by some meek parents to evaluate their son (I think it was Michael Busch).  They were hoping he was good enough to get recruited and maybe a scholarship to University of MN.

He said this is the only time probably in his lifetime when he told the parents that their kid was strong enough to be a top MLB draft pick which completely floored them.[/quote]

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