quote:In the league (SCBL) my son (D3) is going to, here is the rundown based on last year's rosters...courtesy of my crack research team:
D1...56 players. Ranges from 3 to 14.
D2...41 players. Spread out pretty evenly among the teams. High of 10 on one team.
JC...30 players. Range of 9 to zero.
D3...16. No more than 3 on any roster.
NAIA...15 players. High of 7 (NAIA area and plays at NAIA school with the coach from an NAIA program).
That is interesting. Could your crack research team check the break outs for the Valley League and the Coastal Plain (CPL)? I believe you may find more D3 players in the Valley and more D2 players in the CPL. Two summers ago, the pitching in the Valley League was unbelievable. The first game my son played there, a freshman pitcher from Auburn threw a perfect game - that is right, a perfect game. My son was the only kid on the night to even work a three ball count and I was proud of him for it
The families we met in Virginia were wonderful to him.We loved every game we attended in the CPL. It was a true minor league experience. We visited Columbia, Fayetteville NC, and Florence SC. It was neat to be able to drink a beer at a game for the first time. The highlight of the summer was playing Team Japan and we beat them with a walk-off homer in the ninth by a D2 player from Francis Marion named Greg Phelps. My son got the pleasure of facing Yuki Saito who is supposed to be the next great one out of Japan and he had a base hit and rbi off of him to tie the game late.