USA Prime National/ Detroit Tigers Scout team? How does that work?

Man the prospect circuit has changed a ton in the, oh, 35 years or so since I was around it.

J-Train Jr. is such an elite player

you moran said:

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Nice. He's a bad ass. Hopefully he makes it to campus.

There is another 2026 Aggie commit in that video, Catcher Hopkins, who hit the solo bomb in the bottom of the 4th to give the Tigers their first run. Yes his name is Catcher. Yes he plays catcher (and middle infield, utility, and a switch hitter). Haha.

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Would be more fun if he was a pitcher

Maybe he has a brother.

Yeah, I gotta admit that when I first clicked play on the video I was looking for someone built like a tank trucking fools. Maybe some hapless sip commit.

Aginnebraska said:

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Junior is definitely not built like JTrain's tank style body type.

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Built for home runs like his mom

I saw an interview with him, seems like a great kid. Dad and mom did a great job

Aginnebraska said:

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Junior is definitely not built like JTrain's tank style body type.

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Can you imagine JTrain barreling towards home plate?

He just turned 16 or is about to and going into his junior year.

Majority he'll play his first season in college or pros at 18.

Number 7 ranked prep player….

We're going to need the NIL guys to make sure he gets to campus.

themissinglink said:

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Number 7 ranked prep player….

We're going to need the NIL guys to make sure he gets to campus.

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I'd be shocked if he didn't end up going somewhere near where Sanford went.

Doubt we see him. The math now is pretty convincing for a 5th round talent to go to college. Adding full ride scholarships to the mix probably makes it a case for 4th round since you no longer have to pay off $60k in student loans with your signing bonus. We aren't likely to see many above the 4th go to college at any point without a significant emotional pull…like playing at dad's Alma Mater. Still I doubt we see him on campus unfortunately.

Sean98 said:

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USA Prime National/ Detroit Tigers Scout team? How does that work?

Man the prospect circuit has changed a ton in the, oh, 35 years or so since I was around it.

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USA Prime is a big, national organization with franchises across the country that have teams at all age levels. I believe USA Prime is based in DFW. Those younger, lower-level teams finance the "National" teams. I think that, ideally, those youth teams are meant to be feeder teams for the National teams where they supposedly identify and develop talent from a young age to play on those "National" teams. In reality, the "National" teams just recruit studs from around the country.

It doesn't appear that this specific team J-Train, Jr. is on has played any PG events but this is the USA Prime 15U National team page/roster on Perfect Game. You can see where their kids are from.

As for the "Detroit Tigers Scout" team- to be a true scout team a scout or some personnel from that MLB franchise is "coaching" that team. From what I understand it's not much real coaching but more like filling out lineup cards at showcases because kids don't practice together. They just show up and play at the tournaments.

USA Prime - Detroit Tigers partnership

Similarly, Texas Twelve Baseball has an affiliation with the Boston Red Sox so their top HS teams are "Red Sox Scout" teams.

Gracias

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Aginnebraska said:

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Junior is definitely not built like JTrain's tank style body type.

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Can you imagine JTrain barreling towards home plate?

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RIP catcher

Aggie Dad 26 said:

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EMY92 said:

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Aginnebraska said:

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Junior is definitely not built like JTrain's tank style body type.

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Can you imagine JTrain barreling towards home plate?

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RIP catcher

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I can imagine making a matador proud. My new nickname would be Ole'. So no rip for me. I'd be like "good run, sir, you beat the throw easy, congrats". everybody else "but the ball was in your glove while he was still halfway down the third base line!!" and I'd be like "No, no, fake news, he beat the throw easy, don't know what you are talking about. Plus the sun was in my eyes. And there was a murder hornet."