Jose Bautista is currently in contact with the NCAA, working out the details of a recruiting program that will help place Latin American athletes in colleges around the United States. Bautista is a success story of how staying in school until the MLB calls can be beneficial to young Latin American ballplayers. Bautista plans on beginning with the Dominican Republic and he hopes to expand his initiative to other countries as time goes on. "The general idea is going to be recruiting student athletes that are a good representation to my country," Bautista said. "It's just like somebody helped me when I was trying to sign as a free agent and couldn't get a deal done. I had somebody help me and it allowed me to go to the United States to pursue my college education and play baseball at the same time. "It ended up in a lot of doors and opportunities opening for me. One of those was the chance to play professional baseball and ultimately make it to the big leagues and have this historic season that I just got done with."