Trevor Bauer

A showcase or travel ball.

But the landscape's changed quite a bit.

Yeah.

Some people playing.

The training has gotten so much better.

It's also gotten way more expensive to play.

So a lot of it is that

A lot of kids that maybe would have had an opportunity to compete years ago might not be able to afford the coaching or the exposure or whatever.

But also it's a worldwide game now.

So you're not just competing against people in America.

It's like every year the percentage of foreign-born players that play in the big leagues increases.

Yeah.

The money is so good in professional baseball that you're getting athletes that may have played football or basketball or whatever that are, you know, getting into baseball at earlier ages and choosing that path.

Right.

You know, like imagine if Patton Holmes had chosen baseball instead.

Yeah.

like is he an elite baseball player like his football player maybe maybe not but what is football missing out on how much easier is it for a quarterback to compete if pat mahomes isn't in the league like he's just raised the level of stuff right right and so not everybody else has to be held to that standard and has to compete with him so it draws the level of competition up so you can get like the lebrons of a game or whatever the super talented people that play your sport then it just raises the level of competition

And then you see players from Japan are coming over.

You have a lot more players from Dominican, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Mexico.

You've got a couple of players from Europe and Australia now.