re: 2017 Perfect Game All-American Classic is starting on MLB Network

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they are playing for and I mean all expenses tournament fees and travel, room, and board. As far as everyone else it depends on how good the player is and what kind of impact he can make which decides whether he gets comped or not. I would say if you are ranked in the top 50 you are good and prob in the top 75, after that it a player by player basis.

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Yep. And it's a win/win for the teams that do it.

They bring along a top 50 kid to a big national tourney (think WWBA in Atlanta). In these tourneys there are at least 50 games a day all over the ATL area. So scouts pick and choose which ones they go to based off who is playing (individual prospects, not teams).

So if your kid is a not first 10 rds talent, but playing on a team that has 1 or two (or more) kids that are there is a better chance they get seen if they're playing in a game with elite level talent.

And sure not every kid is going to get looks from a pro scout, but that pro scout that was there to see a big name might see your kid. That scout will have mid major and small power 5 team coaching buddies that might be searching for someone at the undiscovered kids talent level.

A lot more kids are getting noticed like this than just your local scout seeing them happening to see them in a high school games in the spring.

Logistically speaking kids get missed all the time. Hell i know a couple kids from high school that we're basically unrecruited. They went to a small juco, tore it up, moved to a D1, killed it for a year, then got drafted in the first 15 rounds.