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It's a bit different with football because you really only play for your school team. Sure there are 7 on 7 events and all star events and showcases in the summer, but summer baseball is so much bigger than when you play high school baseball, it really isn't even a close comparison for future collegiate players.
Perfect Game is the Rivals/Scout of baseball. Except they are really the only choice for serious players/scouts/fans/coaches, they don't have many competitors. They're an organization that hosts baseball tournaments and individual player showcases. They host extremely competitive tournaments all throughout the country, and their national championship tournaments, located in Georgia (Marietta, Wood Bat) and Florida (Fort Myers, Metal) can field close to 200 teams. Any top level baseball player once they hit age 14 can usually be found at a couple of tournaments/showcases a year run by Perfect Game. Many top prospects throughout their youth career will play in dozens of tournaments and participate in a showcase annually.
Of course, they are a money making machine charging teams over $1000 for a tournament that usually guarantees 4 games. During the tournament, each player has the option of partaking in a college like showcase event for an average of $400 per player in which they will complete in individual drills and a scrimmage at the end of the weekend watched by scouts. Depending on the location, tournament and a bunch of other interest variables, the numbers can vary from a couple to hundreds. Each player receives a numerical grade from 1-10, along with many of notes that go on Perfect Game's huge database that subscribers can pay a lot of money to access. Though they have a little bit of information available free to the public. Go to perfectgame.org and search one of our players and you'll be able to see the type of pitches, and the velocity from any Perfect Game tournament they participated in. Their biggest tournament, the WWBA World Championship, held in late October in Jupiter, FL is only for the top high school players in the world and teams must qualify for the event. I've been there and it's a prospect's dream, I've never seen so many golf carts and different hats of different schools on so many scouts. Top games will draw 200+ scouts of major league teams and almost any college in the country, D1 to D3.
Right when the internet really took over, Perfect Game took over college scouting. It's grown every year since when they started in
1998. I wish they had all of the numbers since their inception. 29 of last years 31 draft picks attended a Perfect Game event.
Here are the numbers of players drafted that have attended a PG event and the overall total number of players drafted.
2007: 1,048 of 1,453 (72%)
2008: 1,164 of 1,504 (77%)
2009: 1,191 of 1,521 (78%)
2010: 1,266 of 1,525 (83%)
2011: 1,323 of 1,530 (85%)
Overall: 5,992 of 7,533 (80%)
How it ties in with Miami baseball? Well, I'm not exactly too sure about, but we haven't been good since I have been following in 2009. Our last championship was in 2001 and we just lost to an 0-20 BC team, so we are a **** of a long way from anywhere close to that. Obviously, the entire game of college recruiting has changed because of the internet, but it seems like Jimmy Morris has not been able to adapt to that. It just seems to me that if you send enough scouts to enough of these tournaments, which there are so many of, and so many close, you are bound to find so many prospects that are not going straight to the bigs. I kind of follow Miami baseball recruiting, but I don't really think anyone can follow it as close to we do football. Information just isn't there. Morris gets the top players to commit every year, they just go to the draft. Imagine if we had Carlos Correa at short? Regardless, with the local talent we have down here, we should be hosting a super regional every year.
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