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2017 Summer Ball recruiting underway...really.....

Believe it or not, recruiting for 2017 Summer ball is already underway. Like political campaigns, it seems to get earlier every year. We had 4 players on our 2016 team receive offers to play in the Cape Cod League in 2017 even before  they finished their 2016 summer season.  Most of the "upper echelon" leagues, for lack of a better description, and there are 10-12 of those, will fill their rosters by October, with the exception of pitchers. There's a definite trend in the top conferences (SEC, ACC, PAC 10/12/whatever, etc.) to wait on placing pitchers until the spring as if a pitcher blossoms and pitches a lot for his college, he may be shut down or placed on a strict innings limit.  D-2's and D-3's place almost all of their pitchers  earlier as they often need summer ball to get exposure, where the major D-1 conferences already have plenty of scout views.  The hardest players to place are young D-3 Position players, not because they aren't solid players, but on average they generally face lesser pitching than D-1 leagues, so they are harder to evaluate until they have played a college season. Once they've played a summer season successfully, combined with a good college season, placement is easier. As for solid D-3 pitchers, 92 is 92 wherever its thrown, so they can garner early interest, freshman or not.

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