@3and2Fastball posted:Just remember, for players wanting to advance to the pros from college, players gets scouted just as much if not more in the summer than in the spring. Especially for position players, scouts want to see you hit with wood against great pitching.
And every summer D3 and D2 players “sneak” their way into the top 4 or 5 summer leagues and get scouted.
The other thing to remember is: Nobody gets scouted from the bench.
Allow me to repeat that: Nobody gets scouted from the bench! Don’t pick a level where you are never gonna play.
As far as the high school kid who thinks he’d get “bored” at too low a level: don’t worry, Baseball has a way of humbling every single player who ever steps in the batters box.
Just wait till he’s facing one of the top D3 pitchers with a 78 mph slider that moves 3 feet and a curve ball that looks like it’s coming at his head but drops right into the strike zone. He’ll look silly enough then, walking back to the dugout wondering what just happened.
Or if he’s a pitcher, just wait till he faces one of the seemingly endless amount of great D3 hitters who ran 7.3 or 7.4 in high school but barrel up everything, especially with a big barrel BBCOR bat.
Don't doubt that a player can be humbled at any level. The issue is the wait time to face those humbling pitchers. If only occasionally being humbled, then I'd say that player would better benefit from moving on to something more challenging. Likewise, if a player is constantly being humbled, then they're probably going to be benched, if not already and would better benefit with finding a more appropriate level team.