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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know, baseball is such a hard sport and littered with late bloomers and guys that needed 2nd and 3rd chances just to hang on before becoming dominant MLB players. Take Jim Thome, for example -- undrafted out of high school.  After junior college, drafted in the 13th round. Zero homers in his first pro minor league season. Then a 612 HR hall of famer.

And it's not MLB or bust! There's value in working really, really hard at something and seeing how far you can go. A lot of satisfaction too. Better than a bunch of old farts wondering what could have been. Or deciding that at 9 years old, they needed to be better than 12's, so why bother?

The WCAC has tons of smaller players and they bunt a lot! It's not all 6-4 studs, especially in baseball.

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“Littered” is a strong word…it’s 2% of MLB players.  There is also the local kid Jackson Merrill who played JV in 9th and ended up as a 1st round draft pick out of HS.  It happens exceedingly rarely.

Now admittedly 50% of the MLB are international players…most of those players (especially from the DR) were drafted into MLB academies at 12 and then signed to contracts starting at 15.

That’s actually how pro sports work outside the US.  Kids are put on a pro track starting as young as 5 for soccer and around 10-12 for hockey and basketball.[/quote]

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