The quality, facilities, coaching and scheduling of college baseball tend to be better across the board than they were 15-20 years ago ... to the point where many MLB franchises prefer drafting/signing 21-year-old college products to their 18-year-old counterparts.
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To me, the more interesting question regards Latin American baseball players and their "development." The baseball model routinely scouts and signs these kids at young ages, then develops them over a 4-6-year period at the minor league level. There is no presumption that, once past a certain (arbitrary) young age, kids will not become more technically proficient.
U.S. soccer's greatest blind spot is overly strict adherence to pre-teens "early" evaluation, often ignoring "older" players who grow/mature as players "later."
