How hard is it to get recruited?

I've have always heard it said, assuming you do have soem talent, "if you want to play and don't care where, there is always a place to play. I had a friend who went from Fla. to a small school in SD just to play.

It's not hard to be recruited, it's hard to be picked.

Only so many openings each year on a team.

You can definitely play SOMEWHERE!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought I read that there are close to 500,000 kids playing college ball. That means 500K spots. As was said, if you want to play, there is a school somewhere for you. You've got to have college level talent and do the work of contacting schools and coaches.

Coachric,

Nope.

We have a nice summary of the numbers on this website.

There are about 7,000 open slots each year for college baseball freshman in the NCAA.

Total players around 25,000

Here's the HSBBW link to the page with stats. Probability Of Playing College and Professional Baseball

quote:

Less than three in 50, or about 5.6 percent, of high school senior boys interscholastic baseball players will go on to play men's baseball at a NCAA member institution.

500,000!

Just think of all the discussions we wouldn't be having if there were that many spots available!