PitchingFan posted:
When you say the California teams/western teams are not coming is absurd.
It's not absurd. 11 out of 376 teams in the 17U WWBA were from California. That's less than 3%, from a state that has about 1/8 of the U.S. population, and about 20-25% of its high-level baseball talent. For Jupiter, 4 out of the 88 teams were from California.
Some other Western states at the 17U WWBA this year:
- Washington: 0 teams
- Oregon: 0 teams
- Nevada: 1 team
- Arizona: 0 teams
- Utah: 0 teams
It's not "absurd." The facts are that Western teams generally don't go to the WWBA. The above states and California have about 65 million population. Combined they sent 12 teams, half as many as were sent by Virginia (24 teams), with a population of 8.5 million.
Your view that all the top teams come to the WWBA is not correct, at least with respect to the western third of the country.