Since its inception in 2005, the Prep Baseball Report has evolved into one of the country’s biggest and most respected independent scouting services, with a singular focus of providing comprehensive year-round coverage in every state we are in. The mission of the Prep Baseball Report is to scout and promote amateur baseball - high school, junior college and college - and, ultimately, help athletes achieve their dreams of playing baseball at the next level. With more than 150 scouts, we have the largest baseball scouting infrastructure across all levels of amateur baseball in the country.
The Prep Baseball Report is the No. 1 resource for amateur baseball in each state we cover through our variety of events, boots-on-the-ground scouting staff, daily coverage, and multimedia platforms. Our multimedia platforms and events work in tandem, ultimately creating the most powerful source of high school baseball promotion in each state. While other organizations take a national approach, our goal is to become the authoritative voice on the ground level of each state.
The Prep Baseball Report has more full-time scouts than any other independent amateur scouting company in the country. The Prep Baseball Report is currently in 46 states and Canada, each with a scouting director that focuses on the amateur talent in their respective territory. The Prep Baseball Report’s hyper-local focus is augmented by its national scouting staff that focuses on the top national prospects in all prep classes.
More than 800 colleges and pro teams subscribe to the Prep Baseball Report services. We run hundreds of stratified levels of events across the country, headlined by the Prep Baseball Report Future Games and the Super 60 Pro Showcase.
Our flagship state, Prep Baseball Report Illinois, was launched in 2005 as a print magazine. Over the last 16 years, the Prep Baseball Report has brought the same comprehensive coverage in every state.
The Louisville Bats Baseball Club started in 1982 and is the Triple-A affiliate of the five-time World Series champion Cincinnati Reds. Its mission is to provide fun and affordable entertainment in a safe and clean environment. Since 2000, the Bats have been located at beautiful Louisville Slugger Field in downtown Louisville.
The Bank Policy Institute (BPI) is a nonpartisan public policy, research and advocacy group, representing the nation’s leading banks. Our members include universal banks, regional banks and the major foreign banks doing business in the United States. Collectively, they employ almost 2 million Americans, make 72% of all loans and nearly half of the nation’s small business loans and serve as an engine for financial innovation and economic growth.
Our staff includes economists, researchers, financial analysts and attorneys, all focused on using data and analysis to shape sound policy. We distribute our research and analysis to U.S. and global regulators, members of Congress, academics and media through academic-quality research papers, blog posts, white papers, comment letters, and Congressional testimony.
We also serve our members through our Business-Innovation-Technology-Security division (better known as BITS), which provides an executive level forum to discuss and promote current and emerging technology, foster innovation, reduce fraud and improve cybersecurity and risk management practices for the nation’s financial sector.
We take as a given that the business of banking is the business of taking and managing risk. BPI aims to shape policy to allow the nation’s leading banks to best serve their customers and fulfill their vital economic role while holding sufficient capital and liquidity to ensure that the risks they take are borne by their shareholders and creditors, not the taxpayer.