You're a college junior and you get drafted in a late round. You've told scouts you definitely want to play pro baseball, but you thought you'd be drafted much earlier.
The scout calls to sign you and tells you that you will be placed in one of the 1st level rookie leagues (Florida or Arizona) where many of your teammates will be just out of HS and you'll be playing on the backfields without many people there.
How do you decide what to do? Will you get a fair shot at progressing? Will you get another chance if you return for your senior college season? Will it be a better chance? If you sign with the pro team, will you even be playing still when your senior college season would have ended or is there a good chance you'll be discarded by then?
Is this your one chance?
Watching through 2 sons' teammates, this can be a very tough and confusing decision for some. For others it seems to them at least like a no-brainer - either way.
What are your thoughts?