Top high school players don’t have that mentality. And when you try to tell them what they’re up against they don’t believe it.
They’ve never failed. They have a level of talent where they’ve never been challenged. They’re like the guys who got drafted late in the draft (before reduced to twenty rounds) and believed they actually had a real shot.
They can’t grasp what it’s like for an 18yo to compete with a 21/22yo. Pre Covid everything worked out for my son. But he was 6’1” 175 when he entered college and 6’2” 190 two years later. Put him in this era I would have advised him to go ranked HA D3 for the education and baseball experience.
A predecessor to my son at his high school signed. He told me it was the biggest mistake he ever made. He could have gone to a ranked HA. After dominating high school ball he didn’t grasp what it would be like to be 6’1” 170, seventeen and away from home for the first time in pro ball the summer after high school. He was competing against mostly 21 and 22yo men. He washed out in four years of short season and Low A. He never succeeded in the minors.