My only baseball-playing kid is a HS 2020, so I admit I don’t know much. But the advice to attend camps at the Ivies surprises me. If my son had already had some contact with an Ivy and gotten some real encouragement (more than just passing notice), then I guess I could see it. But otherwise, to invest in plane tickets, etc. in hopes of getting noticed by one school at their camp seems like an expensive gamble. Even if your kid has the tools, he could always have a bad day. (Yeah, that can happen at a showcase, too... ). I have always heard that going to a college camp is not generally a way to get discovered by a school, and that schools don’t generally think of camps as sources for recruits. Do others have a different opinion?