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@PABaseball posted:

By the time you're a junior or senior in HS if you're still worried about development - recruiting is likely going to be an issue. You have to work on your own time to get where you want to be. 

Who said anything about being "worried?"  Every player should keep developing, even after he is playing in college, even after he's drafted.  There is always room to get better and any self-respecting athlete is going to keep working at it.  I haven't seen a kid yet on a 17u team that should stop working on his development, including a few first round draft picks.

I realize that it is the reality that these "showcase teams" are all about recruiting and not much about developing (except in game reps as other have pointed out) but I find that sad, really. I also think that it has contributed to pricing baseball right out of some people's budgets and helped make baseball more and more a rich family's sport.

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