The ball isn’t worth anything. Its not signed. It wasn’t a foul ball catch or a homer catch.
I haven't personally had this happen to me, but having been to and watched a lot of MLB games recently, I think all the balls have some sort of laser/3D/futuristic marking on them and someone from the home team comes out and scans it. Puts it in a data base somewhere.
I don't think this is the case for practice balls, but I think I've seen it done with foul balls, but I didn't really place close attention to it.
It’s not about the money.
I think we’ve reached peak outrage. Life is hard kids. You don’t always get what you want.