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Re: 25% Rule
If a school has "guaranteed" academic money, meaning you get it based on your HS grades/test scores. Son's offer when the coach called was $5,000 for baseball, $5,000 for academic. The cost of attendance was $20k, so he was at 25% for baseball. If I remember right, his NLI did list his offer at $5,000....not as a percentage.
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Re: 25% Rule
Yes, 11.7. It stems from a reduction made in the 90s, when D1 reduced the number of baseball scholarships by 10%, from 13 to 11.7.
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I think the numbers are a little better than what is being discussed here. From the ABCA, the average number of scholarships is 10.58 -- half the programs have maximum 11.7 and the other half average about 9.5 scholarships. FWIW: https://d1baseball.com/news/ab...mer-2019-hot-topics/ Excerpts: "First, some data provided by the ABCA: Total Division I baseball programs in 2018: 297 Limit of scholarship equivalencies: 11.7 Number of programs offering 11.7 scholarships: 149 (50 percent) Average...
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Re: 25% Rule
Keep in mind a school has two scholarship budgets for baseball. One is the equivalents reported to the NCAA that sum up to no more than 11.7. The other is a dollar budget given to them by the University. The point here is a D1 in the Southland conference like Abilene Christian may fund the full 11.7 but not have the dollar budget for out of state players, while University of Texas doesn't worry about the dollar amount of the scholarship, just the equivalent reported to the NCAA overlords.
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Re: New NFHS DH rule
Simplest example I can see is that you have a pitcher who is also a top hitter. He reaches pitch count limit or becomes ineffective, he can be replaced as pitcher while still being the DH. Works the same at any other position. Whoever is designated as the DH (while also playing a defensive position, which is not required), can be replaced at either DH or defensive position by another player. Dinger Doug is your shortstop/dh for the night. Makes 5 errors in first four innings but is killing...
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Re: New NFHS DH rule
FL has a P/DH which is essentially what 2020TXCATCH describes. The one caveat is once the P/DH comes out of the game as a P and assumes the DH role, he cannot reenter the game defensively. You have to decide before the game that you want to use a P/DH and cannot use a DH for someone else. https://www.fhsaa.org/sites/de...ode-3257/dh_rule.pdf Unlike the scenario above where the SS is playing like Ozzie, but swinging like Harriet you cannot decide in the 6th inning you want that position to be...
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Re: New NFHS DH rule
Gotta ask ... how does that impact the re-entry rules? Using the previous example... If Dinger Doug is replaced at SS but remains the DH ... then is substituted as the DH in the 5th... is he eligible to reenter as DH? A case can be made that answer is NO since he was already substituted for once at SS. That moving to DH was his reentry. Will be interesting how this is presented at interp meetings.
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Why would you designate a ?/DH and then at some point in time replace the DH? Is the replacement a better hitter? I think the answer becomes "just like" replacing a DH in the lineup normally, but you definitely have a point. Still the rule indicates a player has 2 positions at one time. The ? is a player/position to be named later, while the DH is the same. Normally, if you had DH for 4, then in the 3rd substituted using DH2, the DH still has eligibility to return (as would 4). With the P/DH...
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So if one of your position players is the DH to start the game....would you only have 8 hitters in the line-up??
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You have to designate the DH before the game starts and that can be any of the 9 fielding positions/DH. The player can be replaced as a fielder but remain as a hitter as he is now a DH for the replacement. It has been in place for several years in the summer and even some HS leagues recognized it. mentally you have think about it as a player on the lineup is a hitter and a fielder. If there is no DH designated, then all 9 fielders are hitting for themselves. If there is a DH designated, then...
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Re: New NFHS DH rule
You can see from the attached, I hope. You can replace Jess as Pitcher or DH and he can stay at the other position under the rules I have played. If he is pulled as a pitcher, he will still hit in the 9 hole but whoever comes in to pitch will not hit.
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Re: New NFHS DH rule
Thanks! Starting to make sense now. Please check this to see if I've got it..... So the DH in this new rule is not hitting for someone else at the beginning of the game. They would only be hitting for someone else when they are removed from playing the field and they would then hit for their defensive sub. The initial line-up has 9 players in it, one of whom is going to be a DH later in the game. Is this correct?????
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Thanks Seeing it helps... If Tommy comes in as a pitcher ... Tommy does not bat and Jess remains as the DH. If Tommy comes in as a DH .... Jess can no longer bat but remains as a pitcher. So in theory ... Jess can be substituted for twice. Now say Jess pitches 1st and 2nd...then is replaces as P by Tommy. Jess is now DH only. In the 3rd after Jess bats... he is replaced by George. Jess can reenter the game. In the 6th he reenters. He can come back as the P only and George remains DH... Tommy...
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Close but if I read it right you are wrong in the end. He can only re-enter for one position either fielding or hitting. But you are right that if Tommy and George are subbed for then they are dead. But Jess can only re-enter for one of them. Jason could enter for the other. I hope this makes sense.
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Re: D1 to Service Academy Transfer Rules
This is interesting. As I understand it, when you transfer to a federal service academy (cousin went to the Naval Academy) you go in as a freshman. But in baseball, when you transfer D1 to D1 you have the 1 year sit out rule and the 5 year clock has started. So even if a transfer player had to sit out freshman year at a service academy, he could play another 3 years through his senior year (where most D1 to D1 transfers sit out a year and then play 2 years). Rick at Informed Athlete needs to...
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Re: D1 to Service Academy Transfer Rules
Good question. Is this a real possibility? Your son and which academy? Tweet to Rick at Informed Athlete to get his attention on this thread. I've done it before to get his attention. If Rick doesn't pipe in, I may be able to speak with the AF coach directly.
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Re: D1 Recruiting Rule Changes
See topic "NCAA announce re fruiting rule changes" already in discussion.
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Re: Rules Question
I'm not an umpire, but hopefully I can answer this. NO, it is NOT correct. Under all rule codes that I am aware of. Oddly enough, this is the third time that I have seen or heard of an umpire doing this. This appears to stem from misapplication of the rule about "unannounced substitutions" (OBR) or "unreported substitutions" (FED). First, the rule is written slightly differently in high school (FED) and pro (OBR). In OBR, Rule 3.08(a) states that: If no announcement of a substitution is...
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Re: Rules Question
This information comes from a post in the baseball section of Officiating.com. In 1979, Billy Martin was managing the Yankees, and Sparky Anderson had recently been named manager of the Tigers. During a game between the Yankees and Tigers that year, Yankee first baseman Chris Chambliss made the last out of an inning on the basepaths, and sustained a cut on his hand. While the trainer was bandaging Chambliss' hand in the dugout between innings, Lou Piniella came out to warm up the infielders.
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Re: Rules Question
What you have is an umpire that wants to show he is the smartest guy in the room. Thankfully most umpires aren't like this. The shortstop should have thrown one warmup pitch, then claimed an injury. .
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Not correct for HS baseball. I recall reading something about this ruling maybe being correct in Little League but since the last LL game I worked was about 30 years ago I didn't pay much attention to it.
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Re: Rules Question
This was pulled on my guys team back a few years.I know what ponys rule is and not sure after that but sounds reasonable to me.Unless any player has the ball and is incontact with the rubber there is no rule.If you watch enough MLB you will from time to time as encouragement I suppose.Someone with the ball onor @ the mound with the ball.I have seen infieldrs handling the ball while there is a coach visit.If the rule book states something different its not followed unless the rubber is in...
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Re: Rules Question
Originally Posted by bnicbball: In the bottom of an extra inning game when the visiting team was taking the field the shortstop waited for the pitch to come out holding the ball and standing on the mound. When the pitcher came out he was handed the ball but the ump told the coach that since the shortstop was on the mound with the ball that became a pitching change and the shortstop was required to pitch to the lead off hitter. Of course the player walked and ended up scoring the game winning...
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Re: 2020 MLB Rules
Universal DH is interesting. And the wet rag seems so specific that I want to know what the story was....was someone putting glue powder in their mouth? :-) And I agree RJM...I don't love fighting as a rule and I understand why they did it but the unsportsmanlike conduct rules seems antithetical to some of the posturing that is baseball (in general baseball always managed to have huge bench clearings without real harm being done)... Most people I know can't stand the runner on second base.
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Re: 2020 MLB Rules
I hate the extra innings, runner on second rule. ASA softball used it when my daughter played. I would rather MLB play twelve innings and call the game a tie. Wet rag, LOL. I can imagine what will be on pitcher’s rags. Can you picture Earl Weaver managing under COVID rules? He would burst into flames if forced to follow the rules. Then suspended game continuation works for this year playing a lot of the same teams in the same region in a short span. It’s not needed in the long run. I believe...
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Re: 2020 MLB Rules
We saw the runner on second at youth baseball, we called it California rules, but I don't know why? So maybe that one is rolling up? Similarly to position players pitching up through high school. Not sure what that rule is at college level.
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2020 MLB Rules
Which of the new rules do we like/think will stick or roll down to NCAA/youth baseball? Will they have any impact on opportunities in baseball? Which ones do you like, not like or don't understand (as in why did they do that)? Here are the new rules and their description from mlb.com https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-rule-changes-for-2020 Universal designated hitter While the American League adopted the DH rule in 1973, pitchers have continued to hit in games played at National League ballparks.
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Re: 2020 MLB Rules
MLB has discussed for several years how to get rid of long extra inning games. #1 they deplete pitching staffs. #2 they typically go late into the night and get turned off. Most are boring.
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Re: 2020 MLB Rules
Regarding the runner on two and pace of play I'm not sure that helps that much long term. Extra inning games tend to be quite interesting, what is boring is the 7 to 1 blowout that still takes 2.5 hours. But if it is a tight game it taking longer is not the worst unless you have to get up early next day and game is going late.
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Re: 2020 MLB Rules
I'll give #1 a thumbs down, and #2 a thumbs up. 1) DH.. Never liked it, never will. I seemed to always follow National League ball and like the strategy (double switches, pitchers needing to bunt, etc) 2) Adds some excitement, and effort to rid the long inning. Got to watch it in action Milb.A number of games where RipkenFanSon would tell us "he wasn't scheduled to play" (his games were West Coast which was a 9:30 PM EST start. We knew that wasn't always true as he would often then be that...
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Re: Redshirt Rules 101
Agreed. This NEEDS to be changed. Baseball and Basketball need to be in line with football. The scholarship limits for D1 baseball is egregious as well.
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The only explanation I can offer is that it points to the powerful lobby of the major D1 football coaches and ADs. The Coaches Associations of the various sports play a big role in this I believe. Also, the tide may be gradually turning. Division I wrestling now has an exception that's available only in a wrestler's freshman year with a D1 program. Division II football also now has a rule somewhat like D1, but it's limited to 3 games in a D2 football athlete's freshman year only.
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Redshirt Rules 101
With the NCAA D1 softball season starting today, and D1 baseball next week, here's a link to our recent post with reminders about the redshirt rules at the various college levels. https://informedathlete.com/redshirt-rules-101-ncaa-njcaa-cccaa-naia/
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Re: Redshirt Rules 101
Still boggles my mind why redshirt rule in football is different. Anyone have a good reasonable explanation why you can play up to X games in football and still eligible to redshirt but just 1 second on the field for baseball and you lose that eligibility? I assume all other sports is the same as baseball, and only football is special?
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Agree, and this one really sucks. NCAA Division III To redshirt at the NCAA Division III level, the athlete must completely remove themselves from the team before the first game or contest of the season. The D3 rules charge a “season of participation” if an athlete is practicing with their team once the season begins, even if the athlete never appears in a game for their team during the season.
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Re: Redshirt Rules 101
@Rick at Informed Athlete Hi Rick, can you help explain to me the rules around DIII medical redshirt. Son got injured during practice a few days before the season starts. Does he have to have zero affiliation with the team during a medical redshirt? Ie trip to florida, etc.
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Having "zero affiliation with the team" is only necessary to redshirt as a D3 athlete if no season-ending injury or illness is involved. If your son's injury is serious enough to be a "season-ending" injury as determined by a doctor, your son doesn't have to separate from the team.
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Re: Redshirt Rules 101
So if a kid goes to a big, elite college baseball program, is healthy and gets 1-2 ABs all season as a freshman what is the coach thinking? There are two kids form our state I have been tracking that my son played with (among about a dozen total) who were highly regarding as HS and travel ball players. One is at an SEC school. He was Gatorade POY in our state but better known as a football player and has gotten 2 ABs all year so far (not hurt) but seemed to peak in 9th grade. There's another...
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Re: Redshirt Rules 101
It’s hard to say what the message is from the outside looking in. The player has to get a feel for where he stands heading into next year knowing there will be another class of recruits, possibly many of them JuCos and transfers. A travel teammate of my son went to his coach mid season asking “what’s the deal?” He wanted to know why he wasn’t getting any kind of appearance even in lopsided games. He forced the coach’s hand. The coach planned on telling him in the season ending meeting there...
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Re: Redshirt Rules 101
One way the player can get a feel would be where is he playing for the summer.