Interesting analysis BOF!
One small point that I would like to make to the youngsters out there is that there may be some coaches out there who equate classroom performance with the liklihood a player will be willing to work at baseball. I have no proof for this suspicion, but I could see a coach in the back of his mind thinking "Slacker in the classroom, slacker on the baseball field."
Don't be a slacker like Marty McFly - bust your humps so no doors are ever closed to you