professional baseball

Fox: Before me, we had two guys who had played professional baseball, but there wasn't really anyone on the national stage, with the prospect lists and the Futures Game and things like that. After my junior year, I started to get some attention. Then I went back to the Bahamas, I started seeing scouts coming to watch me ...

Players play there because there is nowhere else: if you aren't in the majors or the minors and you still want to play professional baseball, the indies are the last opportunity to do so. Baseball America's J.J. Cooper wrote that The Atlantic League is the only independent league unlikely to see its salary ...