Drafting
T-Ball (Ages
4-5) and Rookie Coach Pitch (Age 6) will not be drafted. Players qualifying for each of these
divisions will be automatically placed on teams.
Coach Pitch, Minor and
Major League Baseball, Minor and Major League Softball
In years
past, we have put every kid back into the draft and they are placed on new
teams each year. This year each player
will be given the option to stay on the team they were on during the 2015
Spring season, as long as they are staying in that division.
Any player
going into their first year for that division will be in the draft. If your
child played Minor league baseball last year and will be playing minor league
baseball again in 2016, they have the choice to stay on their team, or re-enter
the draft to be selected by a new team.
The same
applies for Coach Pitch, Minor/Major League Baseball, and both Softball
divisions.
Softball Age/Rule
changes
Our Softball
division has grown by leaps and bounds the last couple of years, and with that,
we have modified rules as necessary to accommodate the growing league.
Minor League Softball will include any girl age 7-9 and
this division will start the first couple of weeks as coach pitch with the
coaches developing pitchers. After the
few couple of weeks, the coaches will decide when to bring in kid
pitchers. The rule to allow a coach to
pitch after 3 balls pitched by the player will still apply. We feel this helps the games at the younger
age to progress and not allow the kids to get bored. All other rules for this division will be the
same as 2015 Spring.
Major League Softball will include any girl age 10-12. We
want to get this division to a place where we can start competing in all-star
tournaments. Unfortunately, due to our
modified rules, it is very difficult to find tournaments for our girls. For the 2016 Spring season, we will allow
this division to play by high school rules.
This will be a kid pitch only division.
Batters will take a walk after 4 balls.
We will allow stealing at all bases, and we will play with the dropped 3rd
strike and the batter can run to first as long as first is open.
Online
registration will start on January 11th, and we will have 2 live
registrations January 23rd and February 6th, prior to
draft day on February 27th.
