As an avid baseball fan, I expect to someday see female players and coaches

[Captain Stern]

86. Agreed, to some extent.

I think the chance of a female knuckleballer making it to the majors is better than as a hitter, or traditional pitcher, but definitely not by much. Heck, it's a longshot for really good high school and college players, period. Only about 15% of the players drafted each year by MLB ever make the majors. Only about two thirds of the top high school and college players that are taken in MLB's first two rounds of the draft even make it.....and that usually takes four or five years.

The only way that the participation of female players in MLB baseball will become a common thing is that if sports science can come up with something that can dramatically improve the strength and speed of female players. The catch is, that whatever they come up with will have to be ineffective (or at least far less effective) on men.....or they'd also become faster and stronger.

We'll be able to tell when mass female participation in the majors is on the horizon. When we see that a significant portion of the very best high school players in the nation are female, then we'll know that the time is about five years away.