Re: How efficient are pro sports at producing superstars?
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baseball definently gets everyone except for a handful of marginal guys in AAA that should be in the majors somewhere
developing someone like pujols and getting to underpay him for 6 years is worth 9 figures to a baseball team. developing someone like kevin youkilis is worth prob like 25 million. so the incentive to not miss anyone is really high, which is why everyone gets a shot as a pro. its also v easy to objectively analyze baseball players which helps
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A lot of times the shot isn't long enough. Maybin was bad in his early trial for the Tigers. Bad enough that he has little chance, if any at starting with the club next year (I think he should get a chance in ST at the starting LF job). If he doesn't explode in the minors or has a bad callup his stock starts to drop. He could be out of Det's plans by mid 2009 with 9 bad months of baseball.
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