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Interesting. Is there a link for last years? That is when my son played summer ball and would be interested to see where his team fell
Thanks. I knew they would be up there. #9. They had a very good year last year as a team. He had one personally as well but more importantly- the team
Son's team was in the top 20 with a week to go. Lost the league championship in 5 games and fell to #33. Not bad, but not where they had hoped to be after a #11 finish in 2015.
#8, team GM, hokieone, pitching coach, David Kopp!
Have a couple questions. I have a 2017 that is deciding on D3 school. Grinnell, Wheaton (Illnois), Rhodes, Chapman, Whitworth, Puget Sound, maybe Amherst. He's a LHP from California. He would love to be able to take part in the experience of summer baseball. We used to live in Connecticut and would catch a Cape games when up on vacation. I know that is a long shot. But provided my son works hard, develops and is capable of holding his own by his junior year -- I hope can will have the goods to play in a quality league one summer. So the question is: From the schools listed, I'd love to know if one is better than another at helping get their players a slot on a good summer team? As he is making a choice, is it reasonable to ask the coaches who they have placed in years prior and when? Anyone know how often a D3 gets selected to play in Northwood, Alaska, Cape, etc...?
I don't want to get ahead of things, but also don't want to pick a college only to find out they have no connections and be stuck.
Thanks
We asked, every coach recruiting my son, there record placing players. We heard a lot of different teams that coaches placed their players. We heard from one coach, and this is important. We place players were they are going to play and be kept healthy. If your son is good enough I will get him in the best league possible. But we do not place players to have them sit on the bench. It also takes more than talent. You must be a good young man and represent the school well.
Read Hokie ones posts about D3 pithers and position players in the summer leagues. He runs one of the teams in the list above.
One of my sons pitched for the #21 team and they won the league championship. Mam - I know Amherst has a history of placing some players in competitive summer leagues in New England. Likely their proximity to those teams helps in that process.
Not to take anything away from any of these teams, but to only have four Cape Cod League teams in the top 35 seems wrong. I know we rank teams as well and do the same thing in taking the record and league championships into account.
Truth is, pretty much every team in the Cape Cod League would win the championship of most every other league. After all they get the vast majority of the top talent. The top players from the top college programs end up in the Cape every year. The results prove that every year in the draft and in college baseball.
Once again, all those ranked teams are deserving, but the rankings are like taking all of professional baseball and saying only a handful of the top teams are Major League teams. Or taking college baseball and ranking DIII teams ahead of top DI teams, because the DIII team had a better conference record. It's all real good baseball, but it is comparing apples to oranges.
I agree Jerry. After I read the list of top 35 I said to my son - which of the 6 unranked Cape teams do you think your team would beat......
I think we know the answer.
I do believe this particular ranking that is posted was for the best in each particular league and not sure that it had anything to do with future prospects that play in the "more competitive leagues", such as the CCBL.
Interesting note...Madison Bumgarner's dad is the GM for the #34 ranked team.
We were delighted to have our team, the Strasburg Express, finish at #8, and we went 36-13 in winning the Valley League. 5 of our 2016 players have already received offers to play at the Cape next summer. College coaches do often mention these rankings. BUT, as much as I would love to tell you that we are better than all but two of the Cape teams, as the rankings indicate, that probably is not reality. We had a very good team this summer, with good talent from some top programs, with some arms and bats that undoubtedly will have professional careers, and I think we could certainly hold our own at the Cape. But everybody knows the Cape is the top league (for now 
), and most college players would cut off their leg for a chance to play there. An SEC program told us that a couple of their good arms went to the Cape and threw less than 10 innings so it did little for them; players need to play..not sit. Summer ball is about playing and getting better. We've had several kids sign with us over accepting a Cape Cod "10 day" contract, but never had a player that turned down a full contract at the Cape. I like the Valley's 42 game schedule that ends around August 1, and short travel, as well as the warmth of small town devoted fans for every team, all played in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, and the league showcases a lot of talent, but the Cape is the Cape, and the very top talent is going there-it allows scouts to see the very top talent, in a relatively small area (although congested with beach traffic), so it's convenient. Rankings are nice...but nobody sees all of the summer league teams so take the rankings with a grain of salt.
+1 Hokie