super 60 showcase

I have heard that it is a showcase sponsored by Full Package and that it takes place in lake forest in early January. However,
1)How do they decide who gets invited?
2)Is it an invite or recommendation only?
3)Is it a good showcase?
4)Who will be there?

Mr. Goose:

The Super 60 is an invite-only event. The event is for mostly seniors, but there are usually a handful of juniors invited as well. Scouts generally recommend players. I've been at the last three Super 60s and there were, I'm guessing, 20-25 MLB scouts in attendance. I believe the event is on the last Sunday of January. I'll find out for sure.

Hopefully that helps.

Thanks PBR, does the super 60 showcase have a website?

Does anybody know who benefitted from this showcase last year? Who war really impressive?
What scouts were there?

Wade Kapteyn, Rick Zagone, & Kevin Dubler were my top choices.

Without question the most impressive player there was Greg Yersich. A 1.79 pop will get you drafted pretty high.

Kapteyn also looked good.

This I have to see next spring.

A 1.79 pop time.

Where does he play?

Beenthere- He was drafted in the 7th round by the Twins

I would say Yersich and Zagone were quite impressive at last year's event. Looking forward to this year's event. Todd and Sean do a great job.

cubs...Ok...But...Where does he play/did he play?

Obviously out of high school by now?

Where is he going to school or did he sign?

I saw Trezniak from Andrew a few years ago and I thought that he was the best thrower that I've seen in forever.

Saw Saltalamacchia a few years ago, too.

But...1.79...Have to see it.

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Found him in the Twins organization...played for the GCL Twins.

Thanks, everyone.

Beenthere, I think he was a St Rita kid....
but I could be wrong,.

he went to Rita, then transfered to an Indiana school for his senior year. I've heard he was great, but I also talked to a White Sox scout who told me that would be better than any Major League catcher, except maybe Pudge at times.

Will he wear a Twins hat when he is inducted into the Hall of Fame?
Did Joe Mauer ask to be traded yet? Maybe the Cubs could get him.

I think that the position of catcher is the weakest (in terms of "talent" of all positions in the major leagues.

Was that way in the 1960's and is even more so today.

If you're a player and can play a little bit, go get the "tools of ignorance".

greg was a good catcher, he played for my travel team for a few years... big body, plus major league arm, just had a slow feet he could get that pop time down more if he worked on that.... his arm made up for his slow feet.... he could hit a ton as well, when we played down in marietta he hit something like 4 homeruns during the tournament.

strongest arm from a catcher that i have ever seen as well

I believe the event has been pushed back to February 12 (if that's a Sunday). Invites, i'm told, will go out in a couple weeks.

PBR you have a private message.

hegonein, read the first couple posts.

has this event actually been pushed back to mid-February? have invites been sent out yet?

I thought that they would be going out in mid December.

invitations are being recieved by the invitees right now. The date is Sunday, February 12 at MVP Baseball Center in Lake Forest. http://www.mvptrainingcenter.com is the given website but i dont know if it has any information besides directions.
is this a showcase worth going to? if anyone has any information let me know. thanks

reggies, you have a pm.

any updates on the invitees???

I recieved an invite to this event and I plan on attending.

bf you have a pm.

any updates to who is attending??

just a few names that I know off the top of my head:
Joe Benson, Wade Kapteyn, Connor Powers, Nick Kurash, Cedric Redmond, Colin Bates, Blake Fairchild, Ryan Anderson, Nick Chmielewski, Brian Stroud, Cole Livermore, Devin Foreman, Tyler Ladendorf, Chris Pack, Lambert, James Clancy, Tom Cerven, Lenell McGee, Matt Diedrich, Brad Altbach, Crnkovich, Corcoran, Bobby Simmons, Johanns, Mike Kaczmarek, Chojnowski, Molnar ...

Just wondering, Are invites only for Illinois kids? Was looking at Prospects Plus and noticed there were more '06 listed on the top 400 from Wisconsin than Illinois. For '07 there is a Wisconsin kid listed ahead of any Illinois kids. Did any of those kids get invites? Are all the invites from the Top Tier program? If so, if a kid chose another program over Top Tier can that kid forget about an invite?

The silence is deafening.

In the past showcases, it's been predominately Illinois players, though there's been an occasional Indiana player (Greg Yersich last year). ... I'm sure there are a lot of very talented prospects in Wisconsin, we just don't know them very well. But if a scout calls and says they want someone there, then usually he gets in. ...
About it being only top tier players, kids from all over the state are invited. There are 60 players at the event, a small percentage of which are from Top Tier.

Hopefully that's helpful.

Todd & Sean

Who stood out in the showcase today?

Several players looked very good, especially the pitchers. Some notables (actually, most everybody there was notable) were:

(Pitchers) Cedric Redmond, Nick Chmielewski, Wade Kapteyn, Brian Stroud, Nick Kurash, Jim Clancy, Blake Fairchild, and Chris Pack.

Hitters: Connor Powers, Tyler Ladendorf, Joe Dispensa, Joe Benson, Connor Powers.

Catchers: Nick Herrera

Just a couple standouts from many impressive performances. ...

What made these players (especially pitchers) "stand out"? Velocity (what was the average "sitting" fastball and the top fastball)? Breaking pitches? Poise? Movement on pitches? Thanks.

PBR,

Connor was so good you named him twice.
How hard were these pitchers throwing?

Sdawg:

Connor was an unparalleled hitter ...

As far as the pitchers were concerned, I am reluctant to overhype velocities, but there were many exceptional performances:

Nick Chmielewski was consistently 90 with a couple 91s.

Wade Kapteyn, the first time throwing off a mound this offseason, was 88-89 with a couple 90s.

Brian Stroud, who in my humble opinion had the most impressive showing there, was 89 nearly every fastball and his curveball was truly special.

Cedric Redmond was an effortless 87-89.
Jim Clancy was 86-88 and very impressive.
Nick Kurash's knucklecurve was impressive as well.

Several others looked very good as well.

was livermore there?

A no-show.