This is a slippery slope that will not end well for High School Baseball.
The article says it is based on the fact that there are players cut and they need a place to play, but it also gave an example of where a top player was thinking about playing in the league. For now, it is a league for those who are cut from a team or does not have a team JV-Frosh, but it also caters to only certain set of players since it would be difficult to have a player attend school and go across town (metro-LA) to play games and work out on a on-going bases. It will cost the families much more as time goes on.
It will also go into a player who is or thinks he is a top player and is on a weak high school team and does not want to surround himself with less than top players, at that point it will grow to more than just a place to play. Will it go the way of Little League compared to elite travel ball?
High school baseball is only for 4 months in many parts of California except in Southern California where they can play all school year! In most parts of Northern California legal practice just started this week (other parts earlier, which is a whole different sore subject)! One thought of what is going wrong is the Southern Section of CIF opened it up to where some programs run a program all school year and some coaches want the players to exclusively play for them and possibly pay their fees.