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quote: The other side of the question is time and age. If the average pro player takes five years to reach MLB skill levels, that player would be four years older than the kid signed out of high school or a foreign country most often.
The college player has a better foundation for the rest of his life than a high school signee. The high school signee has the advantage of applying those same five years at an earlier age.
Skill level plus potential, in that order, should be the determining factor. It is a better starting point than having more potential than skill.
A high school player, because of age would have more ceiling, more projection for the most part. Only college players who a team feels like can help the big club pretty quick get any, what is it you call it? life changing money! I think you guys should do a study with your personal banker if you were to put $500,000 in the bank at 8%. |
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| Posts: 448 | Location: TX | Registered: October 18, 2005 | |
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quote: MLB and the Japan Major League have complexes down there seeking out talent. They're giving free instruction, housing, meals and medical coverage to any players they take in.
Yet we left Legion baseball and Dixie ball to go pay 10,000+ grand a season to play select! |
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| Posts: 448 | Location: TX | Registered: October 18, 2005 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Vance34: quote: MLB and the Japan Major League have complexes down there seeking out talent. They're giving free instruction, housing, meals and medical coverage to any players they take in.
Yet we left Legion baseball and Dixie ball to go pay 10,000+ grand a season to play select!
***thats about the amount of a decent 1st year scholarship!! None of us are guilty of that  ...LOL  *****or was that most of us***** 
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| Posts: 1636 | Location: OHIO | Registered: September 16, 2005 | |
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When you are talking about high school players - getting the opportunity to get a $500,000 signing bonus - you are talking about a very very small % of players. If you are looking at it as purely a financial decision - the decision to sign or not sign becomes much more difficult once you start getting past the first 5 rounds. IMO.
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
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| Posts: 5809 | Location: Huntersville,NC | Registered: December 27, 2002 | |
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quote: Originally posted by WillieBobo:
As Alan Lomax, the great musicologist once said, "Our culture is turning us into a society of spectators."
now thats to deep for most of us
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| Posts: 1636 | Location: OHIO | Registered: September 16, 2005 | |
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