SAN DIEGO – Much like Sunday night’s Perfect Game All-American Classic at the Padre’s Petco Park served as the all-star event that put the capper on the summer of 2017 for the class of 2018’s top prospects, the PG Underclass All-American Games showcase at USD’s Fowler Park is the final stop of the summer for many of the top 2019s.

And that includes a talented troupe of Texans, several of whom play summer- and fall-ball for Addison-based D-BAT Baseball. One is the top-ranked 2019 prospect in all the land, shortstop/right-hander Bobby Witt Jr. Another is one of Witt Jr.’s best friends who has himself risen to No. 16 in the class of 2019 national prospect rankings. Logan Britt, please step forward and introduce yourself.

Britt is a 6-foot-4, 205-pound, 17-year-old primary outfielder and right-handed pitcher from Colleyville, Texas, who recently transferred to Colleyville Heritage High School where he will be both a classmate and baseball teammate of the dynamic Witt Jr.

“We haven’t been lifelong friends but it feels like a lifelong friendship, I’m not going to lie,” Britt told PG on Monday – the first day of the two-day PG Underclass A-A Games – when asked about his relationship with Witt Jr. “It’s a brotherhood. We’ve been on the same team for five years; he’s my best friend.

“He feels like a brother and anytime we can hang out we try to do it,” he said. “With baseball, we always throw together and you can’t cheat on your best friend and your throwing partner.”

As much respect as Britt has for his Collegeville HS and D-BAT Elite teammate Witt, he also need not take a backseat to anyone. He’s been making a name for himself for the last several years and the Texas A&M commit is certainly considered a person of interest at the PG Underclass A-A Games.

“I think it’s important that’s he here because it gives all the kids the (experience) of being in this situation so when they’re older they’re a little more acclimated to it and they feel a little more comfortable,” Logan’s dad, Jason Britt, said Monday. “It’s a growing process and plus, you know, it’s hard to beat the weather in San Diego.”

Britt and three of his D-BAT Elite 2019 teammates have been traveling together most of summer. He, Witt Jr., Blake Mayfield and Caeden Trenkle were given roster spots on the Royal Blue team at the PG Junior National Showcase in Fort Myers, Fla., and met up again in Farmington, N.M., for the Connie Mack World Series. The CMWS is considered an 18u event but the D-BAT Elite advanced to the final-5 at the tournament with a roster than included three 2017s, 11 2018s and 10 2019s.

Britt and Witt Jr. – who are neighbors in Colleyville – joined the D-BAT organization together as 13-year-olds and have been kingpins of their age-group team for the last four years. Theirs was the youngest team to ever qualify for the Connie Mack World Series.

Witt Jr., a 6-foot-1, 180-pound shortstop and right-hander, is not only the No. 1-ranked national prospect in the 2019 class but was also made an honorary member of the West team at Sunday night’s PG All-American Classic. He is an elite talent and when he was at the PG Jr. National this summer, he talked about his relationship with D-BAT and teammates like Britt.

“I’ve been travelling around with D-BAT for the last four years and it’s been great,” he told PG. “With all these guys on the Royal team, I’m excited to play with them, the guys I love; they’ve been just like my brothers, basically.”

After Farmington, Britt and Witt Jr. traveled straight to Long Beach, Calif., for the Area Code Underclass Games where they were together again on the Rangers’ roster. And now here they are again, with Britt, Witt Jr., Mayfield and Trenkle all part of the Central (Royal) team at the PG Underclass A-A Games.

“When you have guys on your (travel ball) team that can also compete at that high of a level, then you know you’ve got a good squad,” Britt said. “I really enjoy having most of our outfielders come out here … and it’s just good being surrounded by your friends and having fun.”

He especially enjoyed the Jr. National Showcase experience despite numerous interruptions caused by rain and lighting. But when the ball was in play, Britt loved seeing and being around all the top prospects from the 2019 and 2020 classes. He also enjoyed jetBlue Park, correctly noting that ballpark’s field is designed after Boston’s Fenway Park, complete with a Green Monster.

“Being involved with that quality of baseball really pays off,” his dad said. “It teaches the kids mental toughness – that’s a big part of the game – and playing the best competition in-and-out, I think there’s real value in that. And, of course, to do that you’ve got to make commitments and be willing to go places to do it, and fortunately we can make it happen, so that’s what we do.”

With all those experiences behind him, Britt came into these PG Underclass A-A Games at-ease, confident that nothing will spring out of nowhere that will catch him off-guard. The Games do separate themselves from conventional PG showcases in that there is no workout session. Instead, all six teams take batting practice and traditional infield, and then play – as the name suggests – three games over the course of the two days.

An elite player like Britt doesn’t change the way he approaches an event even if it’s format is unconventional. “I prepare for a game or a showcase the same way,” he said. “I just go out there and get ready and go out there and show what I can do.”

Being a Texan, Britt has always been a two-sport guy, splitting his time between baseball and football, but that will change with the 2017-18 school year when he’ll be baseball-only. He, like so many Texas school boys, had always dreamt of being an NCAA Division-I quarterback but he decided to rethink that career path when he broke his leg three games into his sophomore football season in 2016.

So, he’ll be locked-in on baseball for the first time in his life during his junior year at Colleyville Heritage, and he’ll work diligently to see if maybe he can get drafted in 2019. If that doesn’t happen it certainly wouldn’t be a melt-down crisis because his commitment to A&M is nothing short of a golden parachute.

Jason Britt likes the idea that his son has decided to give up his football ambitions and concentrate on being the best baseball player he can possibly be. It means that this fall Logan will be able to attend the PG WWBA World Championship in Jupiter, Fla., if the opportunity presents itself, which provides unequaled exposure in front of the MLB scouting community.

“You can just kind of see him grow, and now we’re really excited about this fall because he won’t be doing football,” Jason said. “He’ll have time to really try to become a true baseball player, so that’s exciting to see the maturation and the growth for all of these kids.”

“I kind of wish I would have quit football earlier, but now this gives me two years to get really good (at baseball),” Britt added. “Right now, I’m just one of those guys and now I need to separate myself. I need to chill out here these next two days and improve where I’m at in the draft class.”

These 2019 D-BAT boys have just short of two years remaining before they’ll have to start thinking about the MLB June Amateur Draft with any sense of urgency. For Britt and Witt Jr., that means they have two more seasons of wearing the Heritage HS uniform while continuing to foster a growing appreciation for the way the other plays the game.

“He’s a great player and it’s so much fun to watch him play,” Britt said of his friend. “He’s going to do great things and I just want to be there with him to watch it. Now that we go to the same high school I think it’s going to be really good, because during the summer we really compete; it really pushes him and pushed me and it makes us better players.”

On Monday, Jason Britt’s attention was fully locked-in on the present or, in other words, opening day at the 2017 PG Underclass All-American Games. And on this day Jason was only hoping that his talented son can continue to trend upward while staying true his old friends and making new ones all along the way.

“I hope this helps his confidence and he can get familiar with the situations that he’ll be put in in the future.” Jason said. “And, of course, have fun, and get to know new guys and buddies. These kids, with the social media once they meet each other they keep up with each other. They form a bond and that bond may carry through for the next 10 or 15 years; you never know.”