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Throughout the Caribbean baseball is the Number 1 sport. Track and soccer are popular but baseball and the draw of the US makes baseball huge.

With the advent of baseball academies run by MLB clubs it creates a draw for kids to focus exclusively on playing ball. An poor kid in DR just does not have the opportunities for an education based future that a US kid has. Nothing to do with brains in the heads of those kids...just a fact of life there.

So they are all in on baseball. The thread going on right now about "Where are the baseball players?" has all kinds of ideas on pull for US kids in different directions. Then there is the problem of why potential US players of color are skipping the sport altogether.

Unless football dies over the concussion issue - and it might actually be starting - US based baseball is no better than the 3rd option for premier athletes and it is increasingly a dogfight with soccer and lacrosse for that position.

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