In the spirit of more HS discussions....
Might have been done before, but I don't recall anything recent.
State:TX
Date of first scrimmage:2/5
Date playoffs end:6/8
How many seniors were on last years team/how many went on to play some level of college:4/3
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State: KY
Date of school's first game: March 3
Playoffs end: June 9
Total regular season Varsity Games (I added this category so we can compare schedules): 34 plus spring break tournament
8 seniors last year, 2 went on to Div 3 schools but 1 has already been let go because of grades. This is still a fairly young program and they haven't had D1 players yet. They've had several D2, D3, and NAIA players.
State: TN
First Scrimage: March 3rd
Season opener: March 12th
Seniors leaving 10, playing after HS 0
Returning seniors 0. It's going to be an interesting year.
State: iowa
FIrat scrimmage: April
SEason opener: May 21
Playoffs: July 18
how many seniors from last year /how many playing baseball: 4 graduating, no playing
Returning seniors: 5. 2 D1 commits; 1 NAIA. One more likely to go D2. All committed players played on the same youth team.
State - GA
Tryouts - 1/15 (already doing some controlled intersquad scrimmages)
First scrimmage - 2/9
Season opener - 2/13
30 regular season games / 32 teams make the 7A playoff and teams play best of three series
State final series - Memorial Day weekend
Four of the eight seniors playing college ball
I’ll play
State:TX, 6A school
Date of first scrimmage:2/5
Date playoffs end:6/8
How many seniors were on last years team/how many went on to play some level of college: 10/5
Team composition this year: Varsity is 22 this year, 12 seniors, 10 juniors.
State: California
Tryouts start next wek...
Season starts Feb 13th and ends May 26th — 30 regular season games, 7 Playoff games
How many seniors on last year's team and how many went on to play at next level? 16 seniors — Next level= 10. 4 D1s (UCLA, St Marys, Fresno State) 3 D3s (Chapman, WashU, Grinnell) and 3 at local JC
This season team composition? TBD — but should have at least 13 Seniors — 3 are committed to D1 programs (Baylor, Santa Clara, Fresno)
Texas
Tryouts next week. Scrimmages start Feb 5. Season starts Feb 22 with a tournament, play tournaments the next two weeks. District starts March 13.
There is a baseball class at school. If not in football, baseball players are in baseball class. Coach has already evaluated kids in class. Gives them a written expectation of their role in the program and then speaks to them 1:1. Son was told he was on varsity, will compete for innings on mound, needs to continue to develop his bat. Son was on JV last season, moved to varsity as a pitcher for the playoffs. Got his first varsity inning in the third round of the playoffs.
District has eight teams, play each team twice. Last year son's school was in a three way tie for first at 12-2. Top three teams split their series, then beat all the other teams in district. Other two teams in first were ranked #4, #5 in state pre-season poll, son's school was not in top 50. Other two teams lost first round of playoffs, son's school advanced to fourth round and lost to eventual state champions. It was cinderella in nature.
1,2,3 hitters were seniors and moved on. One to a D1 (Pittsburg of all places), one drafted (30ish round), one to a JC. Team relied on three Jr pitchers, so all three are back. In Texas, we only play two games a week during district play, so they got by with only three.
This year's team will have SR at C, SS, 1B, LF, JR in CF, Soph's in the other three positions.
Really looking forward to this year!
State: Texas (TAPPS D1)
First Scrimmage 1/26
Season starts: 1/29 and Playoffs end 5/16 (35 games plus playoffs)
How many seniors on last year's team and how many went on to play at next level? 10 seniors — Next level 0.
This year - 11 seniors, 1 current commit and 1 or 2 others potentially will play next level
PA
Season starts 3/5 first game 3/23
24 games plus playoffs start 2nd week of May
lost 11 SR's - 5 playing college ball.
Have 6 SR or JR pitchers on current roster either committed or projected to pitch in college - Have very little coming back in the way of offence or fielders. , will not have enough innings for all of the arms.
California (Southern Section)
First scrimmage 2/21. Regular season 2/27 - 5/10 (29 games).
Playoffs begin the followin week (mid-May)and run 3-4 weeks, 6-7 games into early June.
We are waiting for 10 winter sports athletes that won't join us/try out until approx Feb 12 or later depending on their playoff status and results. We had over 50 kids try out for about 30 spots across two squads, V & JV. The transition when winter sports athletes show up will be difficult.
Last year - 2 sr's, both playing in college.
This year - 9 +/- seniors. Approx 4 or 5 will play in college. 2 or 3 more have the talent but won't, due to either academic/career focus, injury or other interest (and I haven't even seen what she looks like yet).
Okay, I will play too......
Texas 6A
1st scrimmage Feb 6
1st game Feb 22
District starts March 13
Seniors on team / those moving on ; 2016 : 14/7 (4 juco, 1 D1, 2 D3) 2017 : 10/5 (2 juco, 1D1, 2 D2)
old_school posted:will not have enough innings for all of the arms.
Old school, that can be good as well as bad. But better too few innings than having a saddle on your back, jmo.
Texas 5A
Try-outs last week of January/ Teams announced Jan. 31
1st Scrimmage 2/6
1st Tourney game 2/22
1st DISTRICT GAME 3/6
Last Year: 8 seniors, 1 D1, 1 D3.
This year:
Returning Seniors, 14. 4 to D1, 1to D3 JUCO
Returning Juniors, 17. 1 to D1
Varsity will carry 25. (ish).
Iowamom23 posted:State: iowa
FIrat scrimmage: April
SEason opener: May 21
Playoffs: July 18
how many seniors from last year /how many playing baseball: 4 graduating, no playing
Returning seniors: 5. 2 D1 commits; 1 NAIA. One more likely to go D2. All committed players played on the same youth team.
Wow! Never going to complain about our (CO) start date again. I always compare it to CA, TX, and other warm weather states. Season opener this year is March 15 with postseason starting May 12.
State:GA
Date of first scrimmage:2/9
Date playoffs end: Around memorial Day
How many seniors were on last years team/how many went on to play some level of college:
11 seniors
3 didn't move on
2 are playing football in college
3 D1, 1 D2, 1 NAIA, 1 JUCO
State: AZ
Division: 4A (6A being the biggest)
First Scrimmage: Started in the fall
Tryouts: Feb. 5th
Season Opener: Feb. 27th (usually about 30 total games-including spring break tournament)
Playoffs Start: End of April
Last year-13 Sr. 1 NAIA & 2 Juco
This Year-5 Sr. 3 will play college ball for sure (D1, D2, Juco), 1 more maybe
younggun posted:old_school posted:will not have enough innings for all of the arms.
Old school, that can be good as well as bad. But better too few innings than having a saddle on your back, jmo.
agreed, have 3 D1 commits will pitch vast majority of league innings. The others will get most nonleague and scrimmage time after league season gets moving I expect. I think they will have to get extended bullpens weekly to stay strong during the league season.
WV
tryouts Feb 26
first games March 14 (30 game limit)
season ends May 12
state tournament finals June 2
I’d like to add another item....max pitch count 110 max # days rest 3...seems ridiculous I know!
State:SC
Date of first scrimmage:2/16
First Game: 3/6
Date playoffs end:5/12
How many seniors were on last years team/how many went on to play some level of college:4/0
First year here so do not know about how well they will be. You never know how well someone is until you see them play.
State TX
6A
First scrimmage 2/6
27 games
7 Seniors returning. 5 committed, 2 D1, 1 D2, 2 D3.
3 committed juniors all D1 P5.
Playoffs end June 9th.
Team make up: 7 Seniors, unknown on juniors (some are between jv and V), 2 sophomores.
State: TN Class AA, District 14
First Offial Practice Day: Feb 12th
Season Opener: March 12th
18 games 10 District/8 Non-District
Regional Tournament: May 14th
State Championships: May 22-25
TSSAA Pitching Rules: 26-55, 1Day/ 56-75, 2 Days/ 76-119, 3 Days/ 120 Max, 4 Days
I had 14 players last year 7 freshman, 5 Sophmores and 2 Juniors so all are returning. I have 23 players currently in preseason workouts.
Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
I think sometimes it's the only rule it that can get passed. Once it's there, the number can be moved down.
Go44dad posted:2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
I think sometimes it's the only rule it that can get passed. Once it's there, the number can be moved down.
Especially for JV. GA may allow JV to throw 90, but the HC of Varsity has said no 9th or 10th grader will throw over 80, but V is allowed to throw the 110.
Why not just make all high schools across the country use mlb pitch smart rules? That is the predominant rule during summer play, and seems to make most sense. I think with velo programs pushing 16 year old kids over 90, you need all the protection you can give their arms.
State: GA
Practices are occurring now. Son currently playing varsity basketball and waiting on season to end to join baseball team.
26 varsity games, opening day 2/12
Lost 3 or 4 seniors from last year’s squad. 1 playing football in college now.
2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
This is only TN 2nd year and the rule was tightened up over its first year. They’re working to make it right.
it Was tough last year to work through it, particularly because somehow our entire schedule was double headers. i made our schedule this year so I was able to space games in such a way that did not kill my pitching rotation. My only concern this year is a stretch of district games that were preset, I have 6 games in 9 days and I only have 5 pitchers and 4 potentials that I’m working on.
I know several small schools in TN ended up forfieting games last year because the did not have enough pitchers to play the games schedualed. I agree with having a pitch count rule but they are going to have to put a limit on games as the next step and maybe that rule is a sliding rule depending on your classification.
OB1 posted:2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
This is only TN 2nd year and the rule was tightened up over its first year. They’re working to make it right.
it Was tough last year to work through it, particularly because somehow our entire schedule was double headers. i made our schedule this year so I was able to space games in such a way that did not kill my pitching rotation. My only concern this year is a stretch of district games that were preset, I have 6 games in 9 days and I only have 5 pitchers and 4 potentials that I’m working on.
I know several small schools in TN ended up forfieting games last year because the did not have enough pitchers to play the games schedualed. I agree with having a pitch count rule but they are going to have to put a limit on games as the next step and maybe that rule is a sliding rule depending on your classification.
I don't understand the rationale of a sliding scale for smaller schools. It's a health/injury protection rule. Why would a player at a smaller school not deserve the same protection as any other school in that regard?
I totally get the challenges of small schools. But there are at least 11-12 on any roster. Just teach two more kids to throw strikes. And, as you said, schedule games appropriately.
Apologies for veering off topic on this thread.
cabbagedad posted:OB1 posted:2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
This is only TN 2nd year and the rule was tightened up over its first year. They’re working to make it right.
it Was tough last year to work through it, particularly because somehow our entire schedule was double headers. i made our schedule this year so I was able to space games in such a way that did not kill my pitching rotation. My only concern this year is a stretch of district games that were preset, I have 6 games in 9 days and I only have 5 pitchers and 4 potentials that I’m working on.
I know several small schools in TN ended up forfieting games last year because the did not have enough pitchers to play the games schedualed. I agree with having a pitch count rule but they are going to have to put a limit on games as the next step and maybe that rule is a sliding rule depending on your classification.
I don't understand the rationale of a sliding scale for smaller schools. It's a health/injury protection rule. Why would a player at a smaller school not deserve the same protection as any other school in that regard?
I totally get the challenges of small schools. But there are at least 11-12 on any roster. Just teach two more kids to throw strikes. And, as you said, schedule games appropriately.
Apologies for veering off topic on this thread.
Sorry!!! The off topic issue was totally my fault!
CaCO3Girl posted:Go44dad posted:2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
I think sometimes it's the only rule it that can get passed. Once it's there, the number can be moved down.
Especially for JV. GA may allow JV to throw 90, but the HC of Varsity has said no 9th or 10th grader will throw over 80, but V is allowed to throw the 110.
GA also changes the pitch count rule for the playoffs so a kid can throw 110 pitches in a three game series. The series format is a double header the first day and the “if” game the next day.
So, technically, a kid can throw 90 pitches one day and come back the next and throw 20.
Yes, CACO, I am still bitter because that rule probably costed us a state ‘ship. LoL
That is just crazy! I figured when they introduced pitch count rules all across the country that it would only be a matter of time before they implemented pitch smart. Throwing back to back days after 90 pitches is just nuts
hshuler posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Go44dad posted:2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
I think sometimes it's the only rule it that can get passed. Once it's there, the number can be moved down.
Especially for JV. GA may allow JV to throw 90, but the HC of Varsity has said no 9th or 10th grader will throw over 80, but V is allowed to throw the 110.
GA also changes the pitch count rule for the playoffs so a kid can throw 110 pitches in a three game series. The series format is a double header the first day and the “if” game the next day.
So, technically, a kid can throw 90 pitches one day and come back the next and throw 20.
Yes, CACO, I am still bitter because that rule probably costed us a state ‘ship. LoL
Well, yeah, um....he graduated, does that help?
2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
It's better than what it was before making the rule. My sons freshman year while I was away on a business trip he pitched 3 innings on Monday, 3 on Tuesday, 2 on Thursday and a 7 inning complete game on Friday. Had a long talk with the coach when I got back.
CaCO3Girl posted:hshuler posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Go44dad posted:2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
I think sometimes it's the only rule it that can get passed. Once it's there, the number can be moved down.
Especially for JV. GA may allow JV to throw 90, but the HC of Varsity has said no 9th or 10th grader will throw over 80, but V is allowed to throw the 110.
GA also changes the pitch count rule for the playoffs so a kid can throw 110 pitches in a three game series. The series format is a double header the first day and the “if” game the next day.
So, technically, a kid can throw 90 pitches one day and come back the next and throw 20.
Yes, CACO, I am still bitter because that rule probably costed us a state ‘ship. LoL
Well, yeah, um....he graduated, does that help?
We’ll see...but I’m sure his now current pitching coach was happy about it. <———— #sarcasm :-)
OB1 posted:State: TN Class AA, District 14
First Offial Practice Day: Feb 12th
Season Opener: March 12th
18 games 10 District/8 Non-District
Regional Tournament: May 14th
State Championships: May 22-25
TSSAA Pitching Rules: 26-55, 1Day/ 56-75, 2 Days/ 76-119, 3 Days/ 120 Max, 4 Days
I had 14 players last year 7 freshman, 5 Sophmores and 2 Juniors so all are returning. I have 23 players currently in preseason workouts.
Isn't the TSSAA pitch rule supposed to change this year to
26-55 1 day, 56-75 2 days, 76-105 3 days, 106-120 4 days plus no more revert rule. The pitches throw are the pitches thrown.
hshuler posted:CaCO3Girl posted:hshuler posted:CaCO3Girl posted:Go44dad posted:2019Lefty21 posted:Wow 119 pitch count with only 3 days rest...I was wrong there is someone with worse rules than WV 110 3 days! Why even have a rule If a kid can throw that many pitches 2x in a week?
I think sometimes it's the only rule it that can get passed. Once it's there, the number can be moved down.
Especially for JV. GA may allow JV to throw 90, but the HC of Varsity has said no 9th or 10th grader will throw over 80, but V is allowed to throw the 110.
GA also changes the pitch count rule for the playoffs so a kid can throw 110 pitches in a three game series. The series format is a double header the first day and the “if” game the next day.
So, technically, a kid can throw 90 pitches one day and come back the next and throw 20.
Yes, CACO, I am still bitter because that rule probably costed us a state ‘ship. LoL
Well, yeah, um....he graduated, does that help?
We’ll see...but I’m sure his now current pitching coach was happy about it. <———— #sarcasm :-)
I'm pretty sure the Georgia Tech HC was there watching. *Shrug*
Scotty83 posted:OB1 posted:State: TN Class AA, District 14
First Offial Practice Day: Feb 12th
Season Opener: March 12th
18 games 10 District/8 Non-District
Regional Tournament: May 14th
State Championships: May 22-25
TSSAA Pitching Rules: 26-55, 1Day/ 56-75, 2 Days/ 76-119, 3 Days/ 120 Max, 4 Days
I had 14 players last year 7 freshman, 5 Sophmores and 2 Juniors so all are returning. I have 23 players currently in preseason workouts.
Isn't the TSSAA pitch rule supposed to change this year to
26-55 1 day, 56-75 2 days, 76-105 3 days, 106-120 4 days plus no more revert rule. The pitches throw are the pitches thrown.
You are 100% correct and I thought I was reading off the new one when in fact it was the 2016. I can’t seem to find it but I’ll be at the rules meeting tomorrow so I’ll see where they’ve hidden the link online.
State:CO
Date of first scrimmage:3/3
Date playoffs end:5/26
How many seniors were on last years team/how many went on to play some level of college:4/1 (however, only one of the four started)
coachld posted:Iowamom23 posted:State: iowa
FIrat scrimmage: April
SEason opener: May 21
Playoffs: July 18
how many seniors from last year /how many playing baseball: 4 graduating, no playing
Returning seniors: 5. 2 D1 commits; 1 NAIA. One more likely to go D2. All committed players played on the same youth team.
Wow! Never going to complain about our (CO) start date again. I always compare it to CA, TX, and other warm weather states. Season opener this year is March 15 with postseason starting May 12.
Of course, they're voting this week to move to a 23 game schedule. I assume that won't take effect until 2019, but they'll presumably move the playoffs back 1-2 weeks. Heck, as it is, we had to push our playoffs back a few days last year IN LATE MAY due to snow!
