Chapter 52: The World of Professional Baseball (Part 4)
When Izaki Jun said this, it was definitely from his heart.
Izaki was definitely lucky to be selected for professional baseball, and he wasn't the kind of person who was drafted after seven or eight rounds. He was drafted by the Lions in the fifth round and is the fifth rookie of the year on their team.
Such a result is definitely a success for a high school student.
Ordinary people only have envy.
Let's take a moment to introduce the rules of the professional baseball draft.
First of all, there are a total of 12 professional teams in the entire island nation. The so-called draft is the process of selecting people for these 12 teams.
Most of the members of the draft are high school graduates and college students, and occasionally members of the public.
Of course, the proportion of people in society is very small, and the vast majority of them are high school students and college students who have graduated in the current year.
The number of people who participate in the draft each year is in the triple digits. The draft alone will take place in several rounds, even a dozen rounds.
Don't think that if you choose so many at once, the number of places in the draft will not be valuable.
If you really think so, you are very wrong.
There are tens of thousands of colleges and high schools combined, and with so many universities, how many players are interested in entering professional baseball?
Looking at this ratio, it is not difficult to see how precious it is to actually be able to participate in the draft.
Anyone who can be selected is an elite who is one in a hundred.
It is also a very fortunate thing to be selected for the professional baseball team.
And that's not to say you're drafted for a professional baseball team.
The athletic life of a baseball player is much longer than that of a normal sport of direct confrontation.
Generally speaking, there are many people who do not retire at the age of 35.
That is, his entire career lasted for more than ten years, or even 20 years.
There will be so many players participating in the selection every year, and after 20 years of accumulation, how many talents have gathered in a team?
The math is definitely a very scary thing.
This is only the probability of genius, the veteran players have been in the professional baseball for so long, and they themselves are not comparable to ordinary high school and college students.
The gap in talent, the gap in experience......
The hairy boy who has just graduated, compared with those old birds, the gap is really, really big.
It's not uncommon to see some rookies in the news doing well, but there are so few of them that it's not an exaggeration to say that they are rare. How much can you see in a year?
But you know, how many players join a professional baseball team in a year?
There are a total of 12 professional baseball teams in the entire island nation. The top-level (first-army) personnel in each team is maintained at about 30 people.
All combined, there are only three or four hundred people in total.
These are the men who really stand at the top of baseball in this country.
Among these people, there are not even 1/10 of them who can become star players.
Those who can become superstars can be counted on their fingers.
From these things, it is not difficult to deduce how difficult it is for a baseball player to get ahead.
Tetsuya Yusei has just entered the team, but he can become the main player in the team in just two months, and he was even promoted to the seventh base.
Such an experience is enough to make others envious.
It doesn't seem that hard to get out of professional baseball.
But you have to know that all the people who participated in this year's draft can now become the main force of the army.
There is only one Tetsuya Yusei.
Not only did he develop his own independent style of baseball, but he also developed a style that was perfect for the game.
He has become an important scoring point for the team.
This is the only way to get the favor of professional baseball overseers.
The other scary players who were in high school and college are still fighting on the bench and even in the second army.
There is no sign of coming out at all.
Of course, after a while, the situation will definitely improve considerably.
Under the big waves, there is always someone who can come out.
But those who can come out are definitely in the minority.
At that time, Jun Izaki took advantage of the east wind of King Seido High School and rushed into professional baseball in one go.
It's not that his strength is already good enough to be among the best in the country.
The main thing is that he is much more famous than the average player.
Let's say there is a person who has done a hundred good deeds, and only those 100 people know about it.
Another person has done only 10 good deeds, but 100,000 people know about it.
Then there is no doubt that the latter is much more famous than the former.
Jun Izaki was able to become famous, which is directly related to the environment of Seido High School.
However, the platform of Qingdao High School is also limited in its ultimate ability. It can only send Izashaki into the professional baseball, and it can't help Izagi Jun gain a foothold in the professional baseball.
Some things are up to the players themselves.
This is the cruelest law of the world.
Survival of the fittest!
In the world of professional baseball, if you can't survive, you can only be eliminated.
In this process, the help that the giants can provide is very limited.
But even so, the players who are waiting to join the giants every year are all squeezed out.
Because only when they enter the big clubs, it is easier for them to get ahead.
As for what happens after joining professional baseball, it needs to be considered after joining professional baseball.
If there's no way to join professional baseball, what's the use of thinking about those?
Izaki chatted for a long time with Miyuki and Sawamura.
If you don't get into professional baseball, you never know that there are so many geniuses.
After 20 years of accumulation, there are a bunch of talents hoarded in any team.
To find a way out of these people is definitely not as simple as people think.
So when you choose to join the team, you must be cautious.
Check in with the team ahead of time to see which team's position is easier to come out onto.
Only in this way can there be a greater probability of success.
"We all know what you're saying, but I'm afraid I'm not in the same situation as Miyuki, so we should be named by the team. Even if you contact the team in advance, it won't be useful at that time! ”
Sawamura shrugged helplessly.
Izaki Jun felt a mouthful of old blood in his throat, so he didn't spit it out.
It's really more damned than people, and the goods should be thrown away.
How could he forget that the two guys in front of him were completely different from him.
Put them in any team, and it is estimated that it will be difficult to be buried.
It's not just them, but also the stinky boy who is Xiaogu Xiao.
It's hard for any team to put them on the cold bench when they get them.
Especially pitchers like Sawamura and Akira Shibuyani, it is especially easy to get ahead after entering the professional baseball.
What team doesn't have a dozen pitchers in stock, and these pitchers are definitely the easiest group of people to get ahead in professional baseball.
When they join MLB, they even have a chance to win the best newcomer in MLB.
Telling them this by myself is really a bit of a piano to the cow.
Nomination: In the first round of the draft, the team will name the players they want. The player who is named can only join the team that named him. When several teams nominate a player at the same time, the teams will draw lots. Of course, the named player can also refuse to join the team, but he will not be able to participate in professional baseball that year. From the second round, the draft will be conducted according to last year's results.
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