My son goes to a small high school where I believe lax has impacted baseball. A lot of the kids have gravitated over to lax. It's not the very good baseball players that are leaving, but more of the role players that often are the key to winning games. I've seen the really fast outfielder types get lost to lax. The kids you might pinch run with or the late game defensive replacement type. What you end up with (again in a small school like ours) is a good baseball team, but often not quite good enough because a couple of potential key contributors are on the lax field.