OT: Baseball thesis topic help

I assume their main advantages are they can be all-baseball all-the-time, and that overall, they probably aren't that much more effective. We never hear about all the Dominican kids who never make it.

I am interested in the concept of what you are saying though. All us angry white guys tend to think that ALL youth sports are being ruined by AAU type stuff that doesnt stress the team game, etc. It'd be interesting if the opposite turned out to be true, that actually, other cultures are gearing their training towards individual advancement.

So there will be some discussion of how players are treated at the major league level after they have left their home countries. Are you getting into potential race issues in Latin baseball you alluded to (are black and Spanish players treated any differently or attributed different skill sets based on stereotypes?) These issues are, of course, present with American players as well. Or are you trying to stay out of the race game altogether (which isn't necessarily a bad idea)?  

Seriously though, my paper is both an anthropological and a game theory study.  Game theory is basically just a fancy way of saying  that one is looking at how participants use cost/benefit analysis to come up with some sort of "optimal" behavior.  In this case, whether certain stratgies have enough of an advantage to help players at the MLB level and if so, whether this creates a positive feedback loop between current MLBers and the next generation of players.

Unfortunately, I have to use MLB level success as an indicator of "getting noticed."  It's not perfect, but the logic is that players who made it to the MLB level and had at least one at-bat were successful in terms of upward mobility.  If this trend of playing time for Latino players increases over time, then perhaps this is due in some part to game strategies.

Obviously, there are other reasons that there might be an increase of Latino players over time, but this is only a Master's thesis.  Usually these things are used to prove that one can create a working project and execute and the content tends to be something along the lines of here is a potentiality that will be further researched in one's dissertation.  However, my dissertation work will be on my original topic and so any further research will either be done by someone else or by me a few years down the line.

For example, "to better ensure success" sounds better to me, at least, than "better to ensure success"  and is different in meaning from "to ensure better success."  Lots of these situations can be remedied by turning infinitives into gerunds ("ensuring better success"), but I still think split infinitives sound better sometimes.

Maybe it's Star Trek's fault: "to boldly go where no man has gone before" sounds a bit better than "to go boldly..." I could get behind "boldly going," though.