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Because baseball parents spend a fortune on the game and baseball grading camps/websites/showcases are generally a big scam to get parents to shell out even more money. That’s it. The whole youth baseball system has turned into a big ole money pit filled with loser adults who never made it anywhere in life but profit off of selling dreams to crazy baseball parents

Showcases are how kids get descovered by pro and college coaches and scouts. I’m not sure what pissed you off so much about these websites, but I’d say the football camps and sites are a bigger scam

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Posted by thunderbird1100

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Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:35 pm to bugafor6

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Showcases are how kids get descovered by pro and college coaches and scouts. I’m not sure what pissed you off so much about these websites, but I’d say the football camps and sites are a bigger scam

But football sites have free access to player ratings and rankings, which was the OPs point.

You can get football/basketball ratings and rankings for free from just about everywhere but almost all the baseball ratings and rankings are behind pay walls.

I think the 2nd person explained it well with baseball not being as popular a sport so they need to make money if they are going to spend the time doing rankings somehow since it wont be through shear site traffic. I mean even d1baseball.com went paid for their SCOREBOARD. Baseball is definitely a lot different.

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Posted by LSUgrad08112

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Posted on 7/10/18 at 1:45 pm to bugafor6

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Showcases are how kids get descovered by pro and college coaches and scouts

found the guy who’s either shelling out $1000 a year for camps or running them. In high school there were showcases that I signed up for, never attended, and still received several letters from colleges telling me “how much they liked what they saw”. I’m just calling a spade a spade.

I played a lot of baseball for a long time from a low level around terrible coaches and people to a very high level around phenomenal coaches/people and the whole camp scene is 100% a way for coaches to line their pockets while telling gullible parents how great their kids are. If your kid is good enough then he won’t need a $250 showcase to get discovered and every single coach out there knows it. Again, just calling it how I see it and how I experienced it. For every 1 kid who gets “discovered by college coaches” there are 500 who are completely wasting their money and time and aren’t good enough to play college ball in any circumstance, but will still repeatedly be invited back to spend more money on more camps. You don’t smell something slightly scammish with that business model?

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