With nobody stemming the flow in Taiwan, many are using the back door labeled "study abroad" to find their future elsewhere, raising widespread concern that baseball in Taiwan will go the way of its counterparts in Latin America--that is, exporting ballplayers (to the MLB and Nippon Professional Baseball) and "importing games" --as it serves merely as a training ground for professional baseball leagues in Japan and the US.
職棒環境不振，業餘的根又不斷被刨走，在國內沒有管制之下，利用留學名義大開方便之門，已引起廣大關切，擔心台灣的棒球將會走向拉丁美洲化：球員輸出，球賽（美國大聯盟和日本職棒）輸入，永遠淪為美日等國的職棒養成班。