[RandyMyers]

Originally Posted by lukasberger

On the NCAA, your case might be true in football, but NCAA baseball is totally different. Most players do graduate, and in fact a surprisingly large amount of even decent NCAA baseball players will quit baseball to concentrate on academics. NCAA baseball really isn't about trying for the pros, like football and basketball are. The pro focused guys can, and do, sign straight on of HS in baseball and the few pro type guys that don't do so now wouldn't be a significant enough loss for the NCAA to care imo.

As for int leagues, you're really, really overestimating how much int players want to play in MLB.

95% of the those guys are happy to stay in their home leagues permanently even under the current rules, even if they're good enough for MLB. Even in Cuba, where the pay is negligible, a great deal of the great Cuban players have never even considered defecting. That's exponentially more true in Japan and Korea, where the pay is very good, significantly better than it is in MiLB in fact.

If they were forced to choose between their home leagues and MiLB at an earlier age, where they stood even less chance at ever making MLB and a long slog through the minors in a foreign country, making far, far less than they would in their home leagues, you'd see that number go up to 99%+.

Nice post and I totally agree. Bottom line is that in pretty much every baseball league out there the DH is here to stay and the various arguments trying to be made just do not pass the credibility test. The remaining few holdouts will eventually give in and add the DH. There is just too much evidence and real reasons to use it and virtually none not to.