Historically, pro baseball teams draft players or sign free agents based on <potential>. Colleges can not do that. The coaches don?t get to work with the players but a short time as a group in the fall and again in January. Not much one on one time at all. Projects in baseball is different than projects in football. In football, you can take a signee at 6?2? 240 LBs and by the time he is in his late sophomore to early junior year, he is at 280 to 300 LBs and ready to start on the offensive or defensive line full time his junior year. He gets most of his off-season work right on campus. A baseball player can spend his entire summer and the month of December at camps or summer leagues or at Carribean Islands leagues.