Additional Costs (not required all at once or even today)

$60.00 Baseball Performance Academy facility fee- Every member out of SAN JUAN/SOUTH program is required to pay an additional $60.00 per month directly to BPA. This is a membership that allows you:

• Weekly training at a state of the art indoor facility
• You get an unlimited use membership (like a gym) to come and use the batting cages or turf any time you want.
• Speed & Agility classes
• Keep in mind monthly rates may increase slightly for the Fall 2020 season due to new COVID-19 Facility Requirements.

$150-$340- Uniform & Team Gear Bundle: This gets you a team helmet, team bag, home & away uniform, 2 pairs of pants, socks, belt. It also gets you team shorts and practice shirts for training. Essentially a large portion of this cost is normal costs associated with playing any type of organized baseball but at a discounted rate. We also have a team store with huge discounts from our Sponsors which will save you hundreds of dollars annually by taking advantage of using our store.For example, if you were to buy a bat in our store, you can expect to save anywhere between $70-$100 dollars on a bat and we are partnered with the #1 Bat & Glove Supplier currently through Wilson who owns Wilson Gloves, Demarini Bats, Lousiville Slugger Bats, and EvoShield.

$85.00 Tournament Fee: This item is paid a la carte when you attend a tournament. Some of this fee also goes to the coaches who attend the tournaments for their time & travel costs.

League or Umpire Fees (TBD): Depending on your team, your coach may have your team play in a league, play in a scrimmage game, etc. Those costs vary depending on the event. But typically for scrimmages you can plan on bringing $10 per game out for umpires, and a full season in a league can cost around $250.00 that would get you like a 15-20 game season.

SEASON INFO

We are a year round program that has players that play year round. We do have 2 seasons internally though that we operate under which is the Summer/Fall season which is baseball that starts in June-November and the Spring Season which runs from Mid January-May. Travel baseball age groups transition on August 1st every year. So we try to form our teams in the Spring in Preparation for the new age group transition at the end of Summer in August and heads into Fall Baseball. Some kids will return to recreational baseball in Spring also and then return in the following Summer.

Practice: We practice 2 times per week. Once in San Juan Capistrano at our training facility, and once on the field in South OC in Laguna Niguel/Dana Point area.

VIEW OUR CURRENT WEEKLY PRACTICE SCHEDULE HERE

Travel: Most games are played in Orange County. From time to time, we will play in Chino, or Riverside County and some teams may opt to play out of state for special events such as a World Series or State Championship

Games: You can expect to play at least 2 weekends per month for the most part and we try to have 2 weekends off with no baseball activities.

What Separates Us from Everyone Else?

Justifying Substantial Value- These are all things to consider when you look at what you pay, and the value you get with us, but more importantly- is your son getting better at baseball and getting prepared for high school or college baseball?

• You get an unlimited hitting membership at our facility and you can hit whenever you want
• The regular cost on the memberships to the public is $89 giving our members a 30% savings.
• Every week, our players attend a speed, strength, & conditioning class in addition to baseball training.
• Big West is the fastest growing youth program in Orange County. With that has come tremendous success from State championships, to All American & USA Baseball selections at ages 8U-11U. We can confidently say that no club in the area offers what we offer at the youth level.
• In 2018 We put over 50 youth players ages 9-12 in National All American programs and played events in Florida, South Carolina, Texas, & Georgia, and Nevada representing the Western Region, and playing along side the "elite of the elite" in their age class meeting new friends and families from all over the Western United States.
• BPA is hands down one of the most successful college placement programs  in the country and is only 1 of 20 Wilson Premiere Organizations. There are only 3 in the California and none in Orange County other than BPA.
• Last year BPA put 23 athletes in NCAAA Division 1 college baseball programs alone and 3 were drafted professionally.
• BPA has an extensive college recruiting network with direct access to the coaches & recruiters and 10 years of proven success placing kids in college.
• Your son will have the opportunity to mix in with other BPA teams (San Diego, Sacramento, etc)- meet new friends, gain new experiences, etc.

Other things to keep in mind when comparing us to other clubs:

• Do they have their own training facility?
• Do they have a strong recruiting platform that will continue to bring in quality talent that will surround & push your son to get better? Think about how you found us? Do you see any other clubs doing what we do to to build & grow?
• Do they offer additional training such as speed, strength, agility, etc.
• Do they play high level events such as NITS, Select 30s, etc against the best competition around, or do they play in Pony Leagues, Sunday leagues with low level talent, or low level tourneys, etc? This is important because your son will not get better playing against kids he is better than every day.

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE ELITE, PREMIERE OR SELECT TEAMS?

ELITE/ GOLD SQUAD= Advanced in fundamentals & skills with an above average understanding of the game (advanced baseball IQ). These teams typically play tournaments (local, regional & National) exclusively in much faster pace of play than recreational leagues or All Stars. These are kids that are executing play consistently in games with things such as, executing defensive coverage & relays, hitting their cutoff man, running advanced defensive plays (timing & daylight pickoffs, understand defensive coverages- priorities on relays, rundowns, pop up priorities, bunt coverages, pitcher coverages & backups, etc.), understand base running such as primary & secondary leadoffs, know how to read a baseball out of the pitchers hand, can execute sacrifice offense, know when to tag, when go out halfway, and how read throws before advancing.  These are just a handful of things we expect from our ELITE team players.

Note: The ELITE team players do not necessarily consist of the best hitters or hardest throwing pitchers. These players are simply put- our most all around polished players who understand the game the best.

PREMIERE= Average to Above Average fundamentals & skills with a general understanding of the game. These teams typically will consist of quality (Recreational and/or All Star players new to travel baseball) baseball talent (kids with natural raw talent offensively and defensively), however they are still learning to play the game at a much faster pace of play, and are still learning the knowledge side of the game.

SELECT= This is our developmental level of baseball reserved for committed youth baseball players that want to get better at the game of baseball while not be limited in developing by playing recreational baseball. There are a ton of kids out there that simply don't get opportunity to develop in recreational baseball because their dad is not the coach, they are small at a young age, etc. the list goes on. Development at a young age occurs rapidly. We have seen kids go from just learning to playing on the elite teams within 1 year. But they would never have that opportunity to get better because their recreational teams set them aside. By all means we are not putting down recreational baseball and we support those who continue playing. However, we also recognize there are a lot of really good future baseball players out there, that simply get turned off to the sport because they don't get opportunity. These kids will primarily play in our league formats until ready for tournament play.