I will also tell you the story of Keith Werman, a class of 2008 grad from a high school in northern VA.
Keith's older brother, Kyle, had been the starting 2B at UVA before the current group of coaches came in, and kept that job for his senior year after they got there. Keith's dad coached Legion ball, so suffice it to say, he came from a baseball family.
He was a smaller kid, but had a Flutie-like arm and could definitely tackle SS. He ended up as a recruited walk-on at UVA.
His senior year, you might think should've been his personal victory lap.
But his HS team's only real catcher had graduated in 2007, and the next guys up were young and not ready for prime time. So Keith VOLUNTEERED to go behind the plate.
The result: His team won its district, maybe its region (not sure at this point.) I am sure that Keith was his region's AAA player of the year.
What becomes of a kid who does that for his team, you may wonder? Well, he got to UVA, but no one really thought he'd play much. Too small for the ACC, was the consensus.
In Keith's case, every one of his 4 years, some one expected a hot shot UVA recruit to take his job. He never had any real power, after all. He might get a triple if he lined one right over the bag. The outfield always played him shallow.
But every year, he won out, started, and produced, mostly at 2B.
BTW, the starting 2B the year before him, Phil Gosselin, remains a major leaguer to this day. His MLB position is primarily SS, but he plays all the infield positions. But Gosselin played a lot of left field his last three years at UVA.
Perhaps that's because Werman beat him out. Or maybe it's because Gosselin, too, embraced the team concept and saw that the team as a whole was better if both he and Werman were in the lineup at the same time. And maybe that's part of why Gosselin is still drawing pro paychecks to this day.