As of 2011, about 38 percent of the Major League Baseball players had played in college. Within the past 10 years, approximately 56 percent of the picks in the first round in the MLB draft are college players. Only about 10 percent of male college Baseball players will get drafted.
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less than 1%
Each league (little league, high school, college) has its own limits as far as how many players can be on a team. In Major League Baseball, there are 25 players on a team.
between 2% and 15%
63% are US citizens
only 1 in 10000
Many Major League Baseball players played football in high school. Most notably, last year's AL MVP, Joe Mauer, was the nation's number one high school recruit as a quarterback. He signed with the Florida State Seminoles, but obviously chose baseball instead.
Major league baseball players
Going back to 1871, out of 17172 baseball players, 8240 have pitched in at least one game, 48%
14%. I actually did the math in March of 2013, but only included starters.
major league baseball is the hightest baseball league with the best players
Because they are a "club" of players. They form a club.