If I played baseball during the internet age....

My teammates and I had the benefit of exposure playing in Legion states, regions and nationals. We also played with a future high draft choice who was followed everywhere. Two other teammates were selected in the top twenty rounds. Our coach also scheduled out of state non conference games.

 

But there were players I played against every bit as good as many of us who played for the state university because they didn't get exposure outside the area. The players who were top twenty round out of high school draft choices were found. There are scouts everywhere and there always have been.

No because it's all relative since technology available to everybody and no one gets a leg up on the competition for being noticed. It might also have a negative effect as well since more people get noticed decreasing the chance to get noticed so it can work both ways

 I think a dedicated player and his family have so many ways of getting seen now. With just a little smarts they can sit down and find out so much information before their coffee gets cold. If you had a bad weekend, no problem you can jump in the car and hit another showcase Saturday. They don't all have to like your son, just one of them. You can have a nice afternoon in Tulsa Okla, and before you get home to Davenport Iowa, three Coaches on the west coast have seen your link and e-mailed you back telling you Great Job!....That's Crazy.

Very good points Zomby, especially the negative effect one.  When I was talking with my friends, we started thinking about guys that might have played in the early 80s and 90s.  What was the only way to get recruited back then? Be a stud HS player and do well in perhaps legion ball or college camps?  Just random things we were thinking about....

 

 

That's food for thought Zombie. All I know is, the year before I went to college the school that I eventually enrolled in had a catcher drafted fairly high for an engineering school, NJIT. And all the smaller schools in the area always had someone going back then. Maybe because Seton Hall was winning a lot back then and the scouts were around in North Jersey. Were talking late 70's here.

Summer ball while not true travel ball was still a big deal, playing legion ball.  Our legion team had 18, 18 year old players and all but 1 played in college.  I will say the country team with 1 good player back then sometimes missed out.