SluggerDad posted:A thing you need to know about baseball at the JC level is that it too comes in many different flavors -- from super, duper competitive to less so. Some JC teams are stocked with guys who have foregone 4 year, D1 schools, because they want to re-enter the draft quickly and not wait 3 years. Some JC teams are stocked with guys who maybe lack the grades to get into any decent 4 year school, but definitely have the baseball talent to play at a very high level. There are also guys who defer admission to, say, an elite D3 school with a decent baseball program, because they want to take one last shot at getting recruited by a D1. Some JC schools regularly send guys onto 4 year programs. Some don't. Plus as somebody said above, 100's of players may show up for fall tryouts at a JC. Many of them will have been very strong players in HS.
"being good enough to play JuCo ball" is not a single standard. And there is bound to be LOTS of competition at any decent JC baseball school.
And there's our local JuCo who couldn't beat the high school on their best day.