“God in his mercy has allowed me to play a game I love, and yesterday I found out I get to do it at the highest level,” Conley tweeted last Monday when he heard about the news.
According to Baseball America, approximately one in every 200 high school baseball players (.05%) will be drafted by a major league team into the minor leagues. Only 5.6 percent of high school athletes advance to college to play at some level of college baseball.
Those who make it through college have a better chance to be drafted, as 10.5 percent of college players get drafted or sign as a free agent by one of the teams in Major League Baseball.