In my experience, travel teams at the 16U and above level have much better pitching, especially on teams that compete at a national level. A high school team is lucky to have one of these elite pitchers on their team. It is common on a higher level travel team to have every starting pitcher committed to a D1 level college. They all have above average or higher velocities for their age, and usually have 2 or 3 solid secondary pitches. Although travel team pitchers throw more strikes, they also do a much better job of hitting locations. There are less walks and hits. In addition, the position players are much better at fielding ( less errors). The hardest part about facing high school pitching is that a batter could face a guy throwing high 80's or low 90's and then have to face a guy throwing in the 70's.