RJM posted:Anyone staring D3 ball is equivalent to club baseball doesn’t know what they’re talking about. D3 players work just as hard as D1 players. D1 players are bigger, faster and stronger making the game quicker and more challenging.
On average, about fifteen D3 players are drafted per year. A handful more get signed as free agents. It’s usually late blooming pitchers throwing 90+ senior year.
If a player is recruited by several D3’s and one mid major D1 is the D1 overrating him and he’s a long shot to earn playing time? Or have a lot of D1’s misjudged the player? Chances are it’s the former.
Or, the player woke up to: odds of playing professionally? The mediocre acceptance rate mid D1 will not help position me for initial career options out of college. (Advisory, Banking, HFund, Law, Medicine....)
Concur with thoughts about college club ball.
Interesting: on sons NESCAC team there were several juniors that likely had only D3 opportunity's coming out of school, epitome of late bloomers, played solid ball the past season and would have competed well for Mid D1 IF starting spots. One of the kids had an offer from a solid UNC school, but opted to be able to play right away at a HA D3, and leverage his baseball toward a career in medicine.