Writing to Summer League Teams

What summer league do you represent?

it must be the Valley league, given his name. Awesome baseball and I hear the players like it as well. 

Valley League, located in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. (I'm GM of a team)

hokieone- Excellent post. I'll follow it up from the perspective of someone working in the front office of a professional team. The following messages were received on LinkedIn:

"Hello 
I saw your Working at the ________ so I had a question, do you know some wher i can play for scouts or a scout or something that I can mail because I would like to try out and be scouted because baseball is everything to me and I would like to play with a professional organization, I have video?s one youtube i can send you the link if you want ? I hope you can help me please and hope to hear from you please ( or do you have contacts at college teams ?)"

The above message came from an individual with no biographical background.

"Josh,

Thanks for accepting my request to connect. I noticed you've had some interesting baseball ops related experiences already, and as a current undergrad I'd love to learn more about them. If you're able, I'd appreciate the chance to chat briefly about your experiences, and any advice you would have for someone following your path. Let me know if that might be possible.

Best,
Mike"

The above message came from a young man who is a double major at a top-notch institution and lists accolades such as Dean's List, volunteer work and a few internships at some well-respected companies.

Which one do you think got a response?

Would you say that you recruit college players or recruit players recommended by coaches? 

Our director of player personnel kind of watches via the internet different teams all year looking at potential players, but mainly we contact 25-30 schools with which we've developed a relationship and go from  there. Most college coaches are very candid in their assessments. We have some coaches that have been very good to us and we tend to contact  them first.  The calls and e-mails start in mid-August and usually our roster is filled by early October.

Thanks, that's great insight to share. 

Bumping this back up, just because I have gotten a lot of emails lately kind of like this one that came today:

"I am an outfielder at XYZ University..  I am looking for a Summer league team to play on.  Does your team have any openings?"

    Sell yourselves!   Give some details, sell your  strengths, give complete contact info and a  coach's name and number/e-mail address.   Review and polish your e-mail. I was taught in law school 35 years ago that "there's no such thing as good writing, only good re-writing".

 One of my favorites was a guy who mentioned he could sing and play an instrument, and did a great rendition of the National Anthem.  There's not a summer GM alive that wouldn't enjoy a player singing the National Anthem. I could not sign him because he was a JUCO but did followup and sent his info to a number of other teams.

HAHA...Coaches love characters....especially ones who can play some ball too!