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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a way for your child to have access to college baseball without buying into the year round travel baseball system? Can you just play on your high school team and do lots of training in the side? I saw a college recruiter on a TT say that they don’t actually scout at travel tournaments and they only pay attention to HS stats. Why is travel baseball such a huge business if this is the case? [/quote]

I find it hard to believe because baseball is an inefficient “recruiting” sport in general except for pitchers.

College coaches don’t pay attention to GameChanger stats and it’s not that it’s travel teams that get you recruited but rather playing at tournaments where there are maybe 10 fields all in one location and a coach can view hundreds of players in one five hour period.

Now, if you play for a top program like Harvard Westlake or Corona in CA or even say SJC in the DMV, they are likely to trust what your HS coach tells a college coach…but even SJC has their Cadets travel program that will go down to GA to play.

Also, everyone has their school season at the same time…Spring…so college coaches aren’t usually spending time trying to see a prospect play in-season because they are busy with their own teams.

Pitchers are easier because you can view footage and just need to verify that if the kid says they throw 95…that they actually throw 95.  Position player recruiting is much trickier.[/quote]

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