This is a great question. I have talked to players and parents of players who were taking a gap year in the hopes of improving the colleges at which they could play baseball. They were either not recruited at all, lightly recruited, were recruited only by schools they didn't want to go to academically, or were recruited only by schools they didn't want to go to athletically. The most recent player with whom I spoke is attending a junior college but taking only 11 units a semester and is only working out on his own so that his eligibility clock does not start running. What I have been wondering is whether anyone here knows of any players who have taken a gap year (or the 11 units or fewer approach) and have succeeded at playing at a better college than they could have gone to out of high school or receiving more scholarship money than they would have received out of high school. I also wonder how players stay on college coaches' recruiting radars during a gap year.