Is this something we should go to?

I didn’t read the link. But you can start with three questions?

1a) Who is this organization?  1b) What is their credibility?
2) What college coaches will be in attendance?    
3a) Is my son ready to make an impression? 3B) I this fishing in the right pond?

I don’t know if you should go but I’ll give you my take.

We’ve received a huge number of these types of invites since the recruiting rules changed last spring (as a sophomore) and lots from the same organization too.  There is nothing personal about them, so they go into the trash bin.  I have a HS jr and he is eligible to be recruited now, yet the emails for these prospect camps are still the same canned style with zero personalization from last year.  They are just trying to get bodies to attend their camp.  Should you go?  Up to you but I’d temper my expectations.

The general rule I’ve been following is no showcases (or showcase camps like your example) until he has something that would put him in the top of the 5-10% of players or some other high metric that would make it worthwhile to show.  Otherwise it’s just a place to get metrics documented and pay them to do it.  I think as a freshman, it’s definitely not worthwhile to attend.  

Also, I imagine these multi school camps will go a lot like our organization’s ‘scout’ days at a particular area university.  There are 150-180 players at 6-8 hour event.  Takes most of the day to get everyone through certain skills assessments and then finally live pitching where you’ll get 5 batters or so as a pitcher and 2 ABs as a hitter (or both).  

Attending a specific school”s camp can be beneficial at the right time.  You’re probably better off waiting until sophomore summer or later for a number of reasons but including recruiting calendar but also the growth factor.  

I still would avoid attending showcases or showcase camps unless you have a specific focus like HA focus and attending Showball or Headfirst or get an invitation to a national showcase that was the result of the player’s performance on a regional or national level.  

Hope this helps and glad you asked the question.  You are entering a whole new world of baseball at the HS level and into recruiting eventually.  It sometimes difficult to weed out what is good and what might be a waste of time.  

Agree with TexasLefty.  Way back in 2017ish my son got this kind of invite, for a 6-school D1 camp, emails (and even a few actual letters) "signed" by the coach.  Because of all that TexasLefty says, I'm glad that he never went.

I got it. Thanks for letting me know. It just seemed a little odd. My son's good but he's not that good.

Would just like to add that in certain situations, these camps can be useful. With the established and aforementioned caveats of when one does have something to show, is potentially fishing in the right pond, the time IS right recruiting cycle-wise, and perhaps has established some interest or communication with schools/ coaches, these camps (collegebaseballprospectID.com and juniordaybaseball.com ) CAN be useful. When it's appropriate, I'd look at ALL their dates and see which schools of interest are going to be where. Often times, if a bigger name school is geographically elsewhere, it will likely be a volunteer coach or assistant. For the schools that are local to the camp date site, I imagine those schools are there seriously to evaluate and scout for potential recruits. Sometimes, it's hard to get seen by schools of interest b/c the timing of a school's camp doesn't work or the best time to be seen by them doesn't work. We had (actual) communication with one school that was interested that asked if we were going to one of these camps. I imagine many schools who don't have HUGE travel scouting budgets lean on these as a part of their recruiting strategy. Some preemptive homework and communication either with the event org or direct communication with coaches prior can help snuff out value and clarify seriousness of school's recruiting presence at said event.  The more (sincere realistic potential school fits) at one of these events and the less the travel, the higher the value quotient. It's about appropriately using available resources/ opportunities, not getting used by them. I am reminded of Fenway's buyer-seller analogy. When you start becoming something more of a seller, more options become pragmatic for exposure.