It's particularly sad to me that you read some of the message boards dedicated to the baseball programs of schools like the one described here and all of the posters act as though it's the most natural thing in the world that players are asked to leave on a regular basis to make room for the next wave. No matter that they've ridden the bench for as long as they've been there during a particularly precious time of their baseball careers. No matter that freshmen come in and are surprized to learn that there are about as many junior college transfers ahead of them as there are freshmen in their recruiting class.
In my opinion, there's a pretty severe human toll being exacted here that's unnecessary, but the people associated with these programs at all levels of involvement and interest seem to simply shrug their shoulders at the "debris" and delight in the next crop's "studs of the moment" who will undoubtedly get them to the Promised Land.