You guys are missing the most important thing about baseball. It does not take great athletic ability to dominate or be a great baseball player. How athletic do you have to be to drop bombs? How athletic do you have to be to throw mid 90's with nasty off speed stuff? How athletic to do you have to be to defend many of the posistions in the field? Just be fundementally sound , athletic enough to get to balls you should and make all the routine plays routinely.
We play many all black schools who have way more athletes than we do. We pound them on a routine basis. They are not as skilled in the fundementals of the game. Many simply can not throw , catch or hit well at all. Baseball is a game that takes reps. It takes time to acquire the skills needed to excell at the game no matter how athletic you are. It is not an instant gratification sport.
Very athletic kids who also put in the skill work basic to baseball development can become outstanding players. And some simply do not. Some unathletic kids who do are just way better players. For every Cameron Maybin there are thousands who are athletic who simply can not compete.
When a big fat kid throwing gas with great off speed command shoves it up your a** for 9 innings does it matter he is not athletic? Or a big fat kid drops a couple of bombs on you does it matter how unathletic he is? Baseball is a unique game.
None of this **** makes much sense to me that is being posted. We all know that a great athlete who also has great baseball skills is a great athletic baseball player. But we also know that you dont have to be a great athlete to be a great baseball player. Or do we?