Michael Eugene Goldak, a former college athlete from Sugar Land, Texas, attended the College of William & Mary. As a student at William & Mary, Michael E. Goldak played for two years on the varsity baseball team.
The journey to becoming a Major League Baseball (MLB) player often begins in high school. According to figures reported in the 2018-2019 High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations, 7.3 percent of high school players are accepted into an NCAA baseball program. Essentially, out of 482,740 high school students, 36,011 make it to Division I, II, and III programs.
At the NCAA level, the number of eligible players dwindles. Based on 2019 data from the MLB Tracker, the number of draft picks was 1,217, of which 791 were from NCAA schools. Furthermore, the percentage of NCAA eligible draft picks that went on to play in the pros was 9.9 percent. This number was derived by taking the number of athletes eligible to play (8,002) and dividing it by the number taken into the draft (791). The NCAA also estimates that less than a third (28.5 percent) of draft-eligible players were chosen for the MLB in 2019.
