Baseball is America’s Greatest Pastime. Throughout our nation’s history, the game of baseball has been a cultural institution that has reflected the nation’s changing social, racial and economic atmosphere. Baseball is a huge facet of this American life. The sport has seen players that have changed the game, so to speak, both on and off the field. The potential to make an impact in the Big Leagues is every college and amateur player’s dream. For a lot of American youth, baseball begins in the backyard. Baseball begins with a father and son playing catch getting ready for Little League. From there, players with big league dreams play on AAU showcase teams, tryout for their varsity high school squad and begin to hone to necessary skills to play at the NCAA or even professional level. With the influx of talent that begins to develop in the little league days, thousands upon thousands of viable baseball players around the world accumulate a solid set of fundamentals in high school and college and fight to parlay this talent into a roster spot on a big league team. The path to get there, like the jump to professional play for any amateur athlete, is no easy feat. However, the sport of baseball has a unique drafting process that differs from the National Basketball Association (NBA) and National Football League (NFL) draft processes. For instance, in both the NBA and NFL drafts, players typically have spent time as student-athletes at various collegiate institutions. The NBA is also accustomed to drafting international players from overseas. Major League Baseball (MLB) however, perhaps is the professional system with the most drafting complexities: farm system, call ups, first year player drafts/amateur signings, double A, triple A, players that are too good for the A leagues but not good enough for the majors “AAAA players” that bounce around-all these things come into play when a player is looking to make the next jump in t