Son played 3 years in the Great Lakes league.....had a championship, a second place and a third. Team had everyone from a few local NAIA guys to SEC players over his 3 years. His team has a great relationship with UAB so it almost always had 4 kids from there on the team. Mid-Majors, B1G. It definitely helped him as a pitcher, but he also got to bat quite a bit (team was local and they knew him from his HS days). It ended up working out great as his senior year in college he didn't pitch due to injury and moved to 1B/DH. Ended up leading the team in average, hits and rbi after not having seen any "real" college AB's his first 3 seasons....though he did get to bat during garbage time a few times.