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First-Year Player Draft Official Rules
High school players, if they have graduated from high school and have not yet attended college or junior college

The local JuCo offers an Exercise Science/Theory Baseball summer course. Essentially its the baseball program putting on fielding and hitting practice Tues-Thurs with instruction from the coaching staff. Many of the local HS players enroll over summer break.

I am trying to figure out if this affects MLB Draft and or NCAA eligibility? There is no league play, mostly drills and inter-squads.

I cant find anything concrete regarding draft status and searching NCAA and Clearinghouse site it all references classes as they pertain to your core courses as you would apply them to HS Graduation or College major credits.

Since technically on paper and with the college admissions he is a registered student with a course history does that break the FYPD Official Rules?

 

FYI His High School does not offer transferable credit for that course, only the core courses (Math,English...). So it really is just a tune-up/reps only opportunity for us.

 

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I can't imagine that his juco credits are of any concern regarding eligibility. For MLB Draft, junior college players are eligible "regardless of how many years of school they have completed", so even if they consider him a juco kid, that doesn't matter. Regarding NCAA, he's not competing with the juco team, so that shouldn't matter either. High school kids earning college credit is really common now. I'm sure this isn't an issue, but I can't point you to any specific documentation. Ask the juco coach about it. Maybe you aren't the first person to have a concern.

My son graduated high school having earned about 30 credit hours from the local community college. No issue with NCAA clearinghouse, but his classes were part of a dual enrollment program through his school district.

I would think as long as he hasn't graduated high school that he would be fine, but you can always call the NCAA and ask.

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