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The road to the Majors?
A friend and I were recently discussing the steps and levels someone has to go to 'make it' at the top level of whatever sport.
We are both Canadian born and raised, so it was easy to agree on hockey and even football. We have a pretty good idea about basketball, as far as talent being recuited to college teams and recruited from there to the NBA.
However, I'm not sure about baseball. I find it relatively boring to watch, I haven't played outside of a beer league since junior high school. As far as I've noticed, there isn't much of a baseball presense at any of the local post-secondary schools I've been around. Even our farm team, the team formerly known as the Edmonton Trappers, has left town. So really, I know little beyond the basic mechanics of the sport.
So what are the steps, the tiers, etc, to go from a skilled teenager into the next A-Rod?
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