Fall Wood Bat Team

What age group(s)?

Highschool age players email me for more information and will go into details for you we have an instructional division for weaker 18 and under palyers and for 16 and under players
most teams are High school varsity or select 18 and under teams
few JVs and 16 and under in the instructional league

sounds awful.

Who are these teams again? And 32 games??? Good Gawd! How will the colleges make all 32 games? Or any at all???

well North Texas Rangers have been playing since 1989 we have been traveling tema since 1998 and now we are Joining the Texas League of Amature Baseball Texas Drillers were formed in 1996 as second team I run Redhawks will Play for the First time this fall as an instructional and developmental team. we will play double headers on sat. and sundays. The league has teams all over Texas from small towns to DFW area to Houston San Antonio and all over South and West Texas. Colleges wil lbe there from the league mailing out rosters and schedule to my self sending out game schedules.
and there are always scouts at my teams games.

Sorry to sound negative,But This has all the trappings of all the other broken promises i have encountered over the years...Sounds Waaaaayyy too fami(liar)....

Sorry you feel that way but it is not. and never has been all my players get scholarships and seen by scouts

for more information on my teams please feel free to go to our website
Thank you
Richard Stephens

http://eteamz.active.com/northtexasrangersbaseball

1139 out of 1141 have received college scholarships. Wow. That's impressive. 99.9 %

Is that even possible? Not sure if DBAT or Tigers have that kind of %.

Added you to main list to of this forum.

LT -- I bet the 2 that didn't receive scholarships decided to pursue other interests.

PD,

Bet they opted for football.

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Originally posted by Longtoss:
1139 out of 1141 have received college scholarships. Wow. That's impressive. 99.9 %

Is that even possible? Not sure if DBAT or Tigers have that kind of %.

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From North Texas Rangers web site:
Team Record 727 - 371
over 70 players that have gone on to play professional baseball
over 100 Division scholarship players
1139 out of 1141 players have received scholarships to play college baseball
4 NBC Regional Births
8 AABC Regional Birth
6 AABC Sate Tournament Births
16 trips to AAU National Championships
1 3rd place AAU National Championships
2 4th place AAU National Championships
4 time CABA World Series Qualifier
1 BPA World Series Qualifier
1 Time USSSA World Series Qualifier

This organization apparently started my senior year of high school and has played 1,098 games over that span but I regret that I've never heard of them nor played/coached against them - not that that means anything at all.

1139 players signed in 17 years is an extraordinary average of 67 players signed every calendar year since 1989. That would have to be four teams worth of players signing with a college every year and would put them on par with the top four or five Dallas-area select programs combined.

Having had several hundred kids that have gone on to play at the next level, I can count on one hand the number of players that didn't play college ball after playing summer ball for teams I've been associated with. The most kids we ever had sign with colleges in a single year was all 32 of our seniors from our two Dallas Knights 18U teams in 2004 - and I thought that was impressive!

Maybe Mr. Stevens will post some alumni that potential players would be familiar with? Best of luck to the Rangers.

What is the name of this League you guys have
formed???

What's this guy smokin'?

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Originally posted by Old Pitcher:


What's this guy smokin'?

I don't know.....But I'll take $50 worth of it...

The only 2 who did not got hurt in football
sorry some of you guys have not heard of me or my team but we are real.

Maybe they all went to Ranger College for their fall program

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Originally posted by scout7610725:
The only 2 who did not got hurt in football
sorry some of you guys have not heard of me or my team but we are real.

Sir:

This just seems really out there, but who am I to say you're lying?

Could you give us 10 names we might have heard of out of the 1,139 players you have gotten scholarships for? Have any gone on to play pro baseball? If so, who?

Thank you so much for your time and if you are for real, then I apologize for the earlier post.

Scott Podsednik, Ray Sadler, Donnie Sadler,
Scott Atchison, Royce Huffman, Kendal Rhodes, Ryan Ridenour, Matt Howe, Derick Lee, Soloman Johnson, Jay Laflair, Brad Richardson to name few.

Derek Lee that plays for the Cubs.?

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Originally posted by scout7610725:
Scott Podsednik, Ray Sadler, Donnie Sadler,
Scott Atchison, Royce Huffman, Kendal Rhodes, Ryan Ridenour, Matt Howe, Derick Lee, Soloman Johnson, Jay Laflair, Brad Richardson to name few.

What age were these guys when they played for you?

no was pitcher at TCU and drafted in 1997 0r 1998

Most played when in High School
Huffman ,Ridenour, Howe, and Lee Played on our college team. they all played at TCU

You keep saying "your team". How can 67 players a year get scholarships from one team?

most of my players come from small towns out side of DFW. I listed a few that have been drafted. Most my players get JUCO Scholarships to hill (Benton) Grayson (Tadlock), Navarro (Johnson), just to name couple of coaches and schools I have sent players to. this season sent 4 players to claredon college. hope that helps couple of yall

Because I run and put together all the teams. we have at least 3 teams every year.

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Originally posted by scout7610725:
most of my players come from small towns out side of DFW. I listed a few that have been drafted. Most my players get JUCO Scholarships to hill (Benton) Grayson (Tadlock), Navarro (Johnson), just to name couple of coaches and schools I have sent players to. this season sent 4 players to claredon college. hope that helps couple of yall

What are some of the small towns outside of the DFW area that most of your players come from?

depends on the years
Clifton, Valley Mills, West, Hillsboro, Mexia, Brock, Milsap, Joshua, Burleson, Alvarado, Hooks, Tyler, Longview, Van, Minnieola, just too name a few just depends on the year

You have quite an impressive resume' for sure. You should be proud. Thank you for spending time here.....how do you have the time to find all those kids? Sounds exausting!!

The same Derek Lee that does the Frosted Flakes commecials?

:-)

Scout,

One more thing, if you will. Who are some of the other scouts that are putting this league together that you are needing players for?

out of this area or close to it
James King with Baltimore

James is from Abilene

Do you know Ray Crone or his son Ray Crone, Jr.?

yes not well
Ray Crone JR Drafted Donnie Sadler

Ray Crone signed me out of HS and I played in the minor leagues with Ray, Jr. He's a good guy. Good luck this fall with all your teams.

yea they both are great guys if you ever need a player looked at let me know. Pat Rigby mentored me and got me into scouting after hurt in college. I think we will looks like a good bunch of players and guys have a couple of guys that could be 1st rounders if they played in at 4 or 5A schools hope Ray Jr. does not here of them for my own draft chance with them both guys are in low 90's and if they stick to my work outs and throwing schedule they should both be around 93 to 95 in the spring
most of my arms are 85 to 90 hope bats will support them.

Sounds great! Good luck with the guys. If you're ever in the McKinney North area, stop by and see the team. We have several kids that should be prospects this year and next. Give coach Gatewood a buzz sometime and he can tell you about them.

Is one of those kids the kid from Liberty-Eylau?