If you google "baseball cut in the fall", the first thing that comes up is is some HSBBW threads. The same thing for googling "over-recruiting". Having these stories on here, year after year, is hopefully helpful for some people.
That first search also brought up an article about the Harvard baseball team . . . in 1911:
https://www.thecrimson.com/art...fall-baseball-squad/
So this has been happening for a long time.