Posted on 01/11/2019 8:16:28 AM PST by C19fan
I am sure he is hanging on our every word for advice. :>)
what no one else can weigh for him is his level of desire to play either sport in a grind of daily practice, honing his skills for years to come. Also, it is very difficult to project who will develop into a MLB caliber hitter. So many fine prospects wash out before the majors.
Less risk of injury.
Will make enough money to be as happy as he'll ever be.
Less reliance on individual performance in BB than in QB position.
Not true... Remember Tony C. of the Boston Red Sox? In 1969, he got beaned from the pitch of an Angels pitcher. Tony C. had a record of the most home runs hit before age 20...
One thing he has going for him with baseball is that playing college ball usually gets players started higher up in the minors than kids who sign out of high school. A good college player can start out in Double A or sometimes even Triple A ball and be in the majors within a year of two. Whatever he does, I hope that love of the game figures into it more than raw statistics.
If Kyler is going to be Brandon Weedon, he should stick with baseball. If he’s going to be Baker Mayfield, he should go football, but keep his baseball options open. If he is a first round draft in the NFL, which it looks like he would be, he will make MORE money in football, and if he is a bust, he will be young enough that he can switch back to baseball. Russell Wilson is still working out with an MLB team.
Tony C was beaned Aug. 18, 1967. Previously, he’d been the youngest AL season home run champ and then he’d been the youngest American League player to reach 100 home runs at age 22.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Conigliaro
One extreme case does not prove that baseball is as dangerous as football across thousands of players.
However, for any promising young 2-sport star a large part of the decision ought to be which sport he really wants to devote himself to for the next 12-20 years. Considerations of money and injury risk may certainly enter into the deliberations, but he’d better think what he thinks he wants to be doing with his time and energies over many years. He should be a multi-millionaire in either case.
I don’t know how many of what would be called concussions I had growing up. Football was not the worst, winter sports, bicycling, even baseball doinks to the head were worse and much more numerous. Life lived in a physical manner leaves you with many incidents of “seeing stars”. I remember my first was standing on the down end of a 12’ plank with a log in the middle. My brother would jump on the up end, and we smaller kids would “fly”.
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