Skip to main content

Reply to "2022 - Where can I get a good assessment?"

22and25 posted:
cabbagedad posted:
... You would think Texas would be an outlier like California and Florida, sending more of the surplus of good players beyond in-state and neighboring states.  Since so many of the other variables are similar, my guess would be that culture moves up the list.

It looks like TX has 36 Juco's with baseball.  California has 88 - not terribly out of line with population differences, but if anything, that would push more kids further away.  Plenty of wealth in CA but in TX as well.  Both show up consistently at the top for best talent and good travel programs.  

What do ya'll from TX have to say?  ...

The thing Texas has over California is proximity to another hotbed of baseball across the Southeast that is similar culturally to Texas.  A Texas kid is going to feel a lot more at home in AR, MS, AL, LA, GA, TN etc than they will in the North East or Midwest.  California doesn't really have a cultural equivalent so if the kid is leaving the state he is adjusting to a new culture regardless.

Makes a lot of sense.

×
×
×
×