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How relevant is travel baseball? We discuss · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kevin Griffin in with us one more segment as it's off to baseball obligations for
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  the other kids. Yeah, my youngest actually has ninth grade games tonight at
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  Ridgeland High School. So five o'clock and seven o'clock it's probably gonna have the
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  temperature start dropping about an hour, so I've got plenty of clothing. Very
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  good, I'll bundle up six hour one eight, five, three, seven,
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  seven six. That is the couple Maloney's textnine. We're brought to you
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  by Mari Star Casino. Miko says, hey, I missed the topic on
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  travel ball, wondering if the best option is to go to prospect ID camps
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  rather than those non developmental tournaments where coaches typically make false promises. Absolutely,
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  I think that going to camps not really the prospect ID. Well, you
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  may be on the same page with me just calling it something different, but
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  I think it's important to go to camps on college campuses, get in front
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  of those coaches. You can develop relationships that way at a young age.
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  And also at those camps. It's not just like, let's say, if
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  you got to an old Miss camp. It's not just old Miss coaches who
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  are going to be there. You're gonna have Division two coaches, junior college
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  coaches, D three coaches, You'll have coaches from all different levels. They're
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  seeing you, and so you're not just seen by the old missstaff. You're
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  seen by a lot of different schools as well. And I think that is
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  the number one best thing for players to do. If you're going to spend
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  money going to play in a week long tournaments, save it and spend that
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  same money going to really good camps on college campuses. Now that's a great,
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  great way to put it, because, like you said, at some
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  point, you're gonna get to bid any kid where if you're just doing tournament
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  ball on the weekends or show it, all you do is to play it,
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  so you're not developing, right. I've seen even full teams that have
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  taken their entire twelve or thirteen year old team to a college campus and took
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  their whole team to the camp, and I think that's great. I feel
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  like it's one of those situations where you know, if you have a team
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  that's gonna go play, and let's say Hoover, Alabama, they have week
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  long tournaments where you go play one game a day. You might go spend
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  five thousand dollars in one week, and that tournament might be deer in a
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  dead period. That nobody's going to see you anyway, Why go? There's
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  no reason other than to go see competition. And you can get that even
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  locally. As long as you're seeing pitches and things like that. You don't
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  have to spend the money and go travel all over the country to get noticed.
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  If you're good enough, they'll find you. And I just am a
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  big proponent of those college camps. Let's see here the other thing. I'll
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  say that somebody told me one time, you get all these exposure tournaments and
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  play big tournaments, at some point, too much exposure and you're gonna get
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  exposed. So take it or leave it. I'd rather not be exposed us.
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  No, absolutely, Bill says, I just tuned in. I don't
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  know who your guest is. Kevin Griffin had softball coach at bell Any and
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  associated with that. I said that, right, no association, so he
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  says, But I one hundred percent agree. My son is a freshman and
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  we've been to just about every kind of camp out there. The prospect I
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  E camps have never been impressive. In fact, some have been a complete
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  waste of my money in my or in money in my opinion, the best
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  camp to go to in his opinion, it is there on campus camps,
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  which basically he's agreeing with everything. Yeah, there's a guy here locally that
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  works with PBR, Matt Miller's the state director of PBR. I think he
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  does a really good job of being in it for the kid. If he
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  says he's going to do something and get a kid's name out there, he
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  usually does it. So I really like what he does. But I just
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  always had a problem. And again, I'm not just a parent, I'm
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  I coach for a living, so I have a different take on it.
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  I always had a problem taking my kids to a prospect ID camp for them
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  to tell me metrics and numbers that I already knew because I have the technology
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  myself to be able to know those things. So why am I going to
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  pay money for somebody else to go tell me these things? That's why we
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  never did it. Connor went to his first showcase this past summer, and
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  it's because he just wanted to go experience it and play in a major league
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  ballpark in the PG National Event. So yeah, that's the first one we
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  ever did,