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I know personally two of those players from that blog post. Not in a million years would I have expected both to make a ML roster within a year after being drafted.

Over the past few years I have seen players drafted late or signed as free agents and have been successful in reaching ML. I met someone yesterday whose family friend was not drafted, signed as free agent and pitched last year for a NL team.

There are a lot of situations out there where players have blossomed with the help of excellent coaching and tons of hard work on your own.

Piazza was drafted in the 60th round. Since then MLB has cut to 40 then 20:due to the lack of relevance of those late rounds. 84% of American MLBers come from the top ten rounds. Friends and relatives of organizations were often drafted in those late rounds.

A 17u travel teammate of my son was drafted in the last round by his uncle after college. He hit .200 in short season and was released.

Piazza hit for power in A ball. He started hitting for average in AA and AAA.

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