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Reply to "Sign or College......That Is The Question!!"

I have never seen any stats, but think about this logically. If you play pro ball until Sept, most schools start in August. If they ask the player to play in a fall Instructional League, how would that fit in to your academic calendar? I am assuming a pro team would pay you to play in the fall, but those seasons are not very long. So if a player lives away from home and signs up at a college near where they are playing and if that player has to live away from home for the entire semester who is paying for that? If a player's career ends at 23 or 24, and he doesn't take any classes beforehand, will he start his freshman year at age 24? Some one told me that there are something like only 30 MLB players with college degrees. It sounds like a good financial bargaining tool for MLB that few players ever take advantage of. Maybe I'm wrong but I have never seen any stats like the NCAA publishes.
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