My experience is that many college baseball coaches really like kids who played football in high school. I think it likely has to do with some of the mental and physical toughness that comes with football. I bet many college coaches would say one of their biggest challenges is kids who are soft or entitled. Baseball players who also excel in football, maybe in general are not so much like that.
My son played football mostly to be hanging with the guys, I think. We talked about it but I totally left it up to him. He had no real passion or great talent for it. On the other hand he was a pitcher with great potential. It was obvious he could play in college and he loved it. I would watch him play football and I'd find myself thinking to myself "please don't let him get hurt, please don't let him get hurt". And guess what. He got hurt. A bad knee injury. His junior year of baseball was mostly wiped out. Thankfully he had a tremendous senior year of high school and got to play in college.