Thankfully, for recruiting purposes HS does not mean much.
Less than travel but more than you think. A travel coach can’t explain how well a player balances baseball and academics. There are high school coaches that are well connected to the colleges. Many high school coaches aren’t the drooling morons a lot of people make them out to be. Don’t think for a second high school baseball doesn’t matter a lot to the kids. There’s something special about high school baseball that doesn’t exist with travel.