Thanks everyone for the kind words.
As to the invite, I can only speak about my experience. We did not have a team and were 3 weeks away from the start of the tourney. I applied for a spot through PG and waited for a reply. In the mean time my sons varsity coach found a team for him that was put together in just a short period of time. PG got back to us saying they had a spot for him on a team, but we informed them we already had a team. We never met the coach or practiced with the team, just showed up and were ready to play. So I guess PG has a system by which they put kids on teams looking for players. I imagine position players have a harder time finding a spot on established teams as opposed to pitchers which every team can typically use more of.