"Major League Baseball is undertaking its boldest effort yet to reclaim a youth apparatus that has been outsourced to third-party profiteers, planning a summer league for elite high school players that it hopes will eat into the pay-for-play market that exists today, sources familiar with the plan told Yahoo Sports."
The first sentence above makes it clear that Jeff Passan has an agenda, and that's to curry favor with MLB. The last sentence is also a good one.
"...any fear is mitigated by the recognition that the youth system, as currently constituted, is broken and the union backs the league’s efforts to change it."
Few would argue that youth baseball does not have significant issues. But, no way in heck that MLB paying the freight for 80 top prospects is going to do anything to benefit youth baseball as a whole. MLB is not doing this for youth baseball, they're doing it to benefit MLB. Passan cannot possibly be stupid enough to think otherwise. He's shilling for them.