The top 25 in D1 last year had over 6 players drafted per team. Riverside is a good team but not a perennial top 50 team. One year I believe they were in or close to the top 25. Last year only two or three teams out of the top 25 had as few as 3 players drafted. On the other hand 1 team had 14 players drafted, 3 had 9 drafted and 2 had 8 drafted. That is what I was referring to when I said I was surprised that Riverside had that few drafted.
Please quit trying to put words in my keyboard. How can you interpret "a select few" as being almost half? A bit over 150 players were drafted from the top 25 D1 teams last year. I'd be surprised if even 10 of the 150+ drafted from the top 25 D1s went straight to full season A or higher.
How much turnover is there in the coaching in short season A ball? Where do they send the guys with playing experience but no coaching experience who may or may not be decent coaches? I'd agree that for the most part pro teams have better coaching than college teams but I wouldn't extend that to short season teams. We've had a lot of guys who have coached at various levels of pro ball around here and we've got a lot of college coaches around here and other than Scioscia and George Anderson none of the pro coaches stand out a whole lot.