I watched Midland play about 4 years ago and they had a 1B from Florida who was going into his senior year. Eric Hosmer went onto be the #3 overall pick and was just called up by the Royals.

 

A dad of a player from Moeller told me that Midland had a couple of full-time (ie paid) scouts to scour the country for players. Didn't one of the Uptons play for Midland?

I checked Midland's roster. The first 3 players were from KS, DE, and AZ. I stopped checking assuming that wasn't just happenstance.

 

Boone's Jackson Laumann is on the roster.

I don't believe this is true anymore. Midland had a bit of a paradigm shift after last season - they disbanded their existing 16U and 17U teams and were told by Papa Joe to concentrate on recruiting more local-based kids. I believe "local based" to Midland now means within a 200-mile radius or something like that. I'll have to check with my Midland contact to see the actual makeup of their roster this year, but I'm told the days of them having a roster full of Georgia, Florida, Texas, California, etc.. kids are done or will be done next year. Obviously, even drawing from a radius of 200+ miles still puts you ahead of most everyone else recruiting-wise, but it is certainly not impossible that the overall talent level at Midland may be down a little and might make it possible for other teams to win the Connie Mack.

 

I heard that at the 18u level they were still going to get kids from around the country and the very best regional talent. When the 16's and 17's are back they will be all local talent..

Here is the Midland Redskins 2011 Roster

 

Dillon Peters (LHP) Indianapolis, IN

Chase Mullins (LHP Lexington, KY

Matt Smoral (LHP) Solon, OH

Mike Mancuso (RHP) Brecksville, OH

Eric Martin (RHP) Cincinnati, OH

Chandler Shepard (RHP) Louisa, KY

Taylore Cherry (RH) Dayton, OH

Jackson Laumann (1B) Boone County, KY

Jared Ruxer (RHP) Indianapolis, IN

Boo Vazquez (OF) Youngstown, OH

Max Kuhn (SS) - Indianapolis, IN

Dillon Howard (RHP) - Searcy, AR

Mike Klement (SS) Miami, FL

Alex Real © - Phoenix, AZ

Kevin Matthews (LHP) Richmond Hills, GA

Kayden Porter (OF,1B, Closer) Spanish Fork, UT

Cody Geyer (DH) Weaverville, NC

Ryan Burr (RHP) - Denver, CO

Joe DeCarlo (SS) - Philadelphia, PA

Colten Bottlomley (OF) - Miami, FL

Dakota Smith (OF) - Leavenworth, Kansas

John Clay Reeves © - Monroe, LA

 

*****Looks pretty national to me....

I beleive half the roster has to be from a 300 mile radius and the other half national. In a 1 game situation, as baseball goes, anything can happen. When it gets into tournament play or a longer series it would a whole different game. Also, Midland uses only wood bats while their opponents use aluminum if they want.

Roosters have played Team cincy twice and split with them.