@Francis7 posted:If you have 200 outfielders in a graduation year who all run a 6.80 and have an exit velo of 90, there's got to be something that happens to make a coach what a specific one, right?
Is that why everyone says it's important to go where you are loved rather than try and shoehorn yourself on to a roster - because that love means they want you, and it's better to be wanted than to be one who's left without a chair when the music stops?
Sure it's the connection ultimately. Initially, its a mix of their actual ability, luck, timing and probably initially an advocate of some kind that made difference. Fact of life inside and outside of baseball. And as we all know often in life the best or equal candidates get passed over and end up where they really belong, hopefully. Baseball=Life.