I certainly don't want to push any of your big buttons, red or otherwise. I have no right to name the the player that I mentioned, but if I did, you could see on MaxPreps that he got 5 PA's this past season as a junior on a very good HS team. You could also see his name on the USSSA website where he's listed as a member of a 14U team and 13U team that won multiple USSSA majors tournaments facing legit competition. On that team he was the leadoff hitter and starting CF, but you'd have to take my word on that. (BTW and FWIW my kid tried out for that team multiple times and was never chosen, yet started on the same varsity HS team as a soph) And I can think a few others around our area with similar stories. The fact that your anecdotal experience is different is not surprising, and somehow the difference doesn't make me leap to the conclusion that you're incapable of interpreting what you see or just making stuff up.