Summer league-always interesting.....

I hear you Hokie - I'll bet that's tough when you're trying to assemble a team.  I'm sure you plan on some attrition, but losing three pitchers this early is hard on a roster.  It sounds like your league has a pretty good schedule.  The one my son played in last year was 56 games plus all stars plus playoffs.  Add an exhibition game in there plus they won the championship and it doesn't allow for much downtime.  This summer's league assignment should be much more manageable. 

My son was told by his JC to take last summer off, and this year, he was told if he pitched 70 or so innings to do the same.  He pitched 69 1/3, so he will not be pitching. 

I would assume a lot of pitchers are in the same boat.

Sounds like there is a lot of churning in summer ball. I talked to a dad the other day and asked if his son was looking forward to seeing his son play for a team he had signed with a while back. Dad said, oh, looks like he's going to be going somewhere else.  We find out tomorrow.  I said is it kosher to back out? He  shrugged and said, you go where  coach tells you to go.

I have noticed our local team still signing kids this week. I thought it was a little late in the game, but maybe this explains some of it. It would be interesting to go back and compare the publicized signings to the actual roster to see how many players showed up. First game is tonight. 

It is almost a certainty that from your very first completed roster, in about mid-October, you will be at least 25-35% different by season's end, or more. It not the team with the best talent sometimes that wins, it's the team that replaces what they lose the best. It happens, just a reality of summer ball.   

My guy has a 72 games in 70 day schedule. there are 3-4 kids from school ball on same team. The first game was  on the 30th. it will be next tuesday at the earliest any of the guys can get there because of regionals/travel.

Resurrecting this thread to give a huge "Thank You" to HokieOne for mentioning the roster needs of Summer teams and for specifically helping my son with the Valley League. 

My oldest is a RHP/DH/sometimes SS who resumed college and baseball this Spring 2017.  He had no Summer team placement since he was a working stiff last Fall and not in college at all.  Based on Hokie's previous threads on Summer leagues, my son reached out to a number of Northwoods and Coastal Plains teams and had a lot of interest, initially as a fill in and subsequently for full time spots.  Didn't know anything about the Valley League but that's where he's ended up and he's loving it!  Great people, beautiful part of the country, outstanding baseball.  He's having an incredible time! 

For pitchers I also think this is an evolution of sorts.  College coaches are beginning to realize that guys should only throw so many innings (not to mention the benefits of training)  and as the season unfolds it is difficult for them to know, with the exception of their redshirts, where guys are going to be at the beginning of June.  

They had a number at the beginning of Spring for my son where if he hit that amount he would not throw this summer.  Slow start to season, then a month of heavier workload, and then a slow finish so at any given time the summer ball potential was very different.  Now he is going to report to a team in a few weeks and throw about 20 innings or so.

Not helpful to Hokieone and folks running these teams but I'm not sure it is going to change either.

BackstopDad32 posted:

For pitchers I also think this is an evolution of sorts.  College coaches are beginning to realize that guys should only throw so many innings (not to mention the benefits of training)  and as the season unfolds it is difficult for them to know, with the exception of their redshirts, where guys are going to be at the beginning of June.  

They had a number at the beginning of Spring for my son where if he hit that amount he would not throw this summer.  Slow start to season, then a month of heavier workload, and then a slow finish so at any given time the summer ball potential was very different.  Now he is going to report to a team in a few weeks and throw about 20 innings or so.

Not helpful to Hokieone and folks running these teams but I'm not sure it is going to change either.

 

At the Cape, if you started, you are used in relief, if you relieved, you started. Not sure how other leagues do it.

Summer teams have to report back to the teams regarding work load. Many pitchers don't scrimmage in fall depending on summer innings pitched.  It's a long summer, if you go to playoffs, it's even longer.

It's best if the pitcher plays in a summer league that the college coach is familiar with.

The Melville Millionaires (Saskatchewan BC) looking for players.

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