Shakopee Baseball Association

Feb 12 - Traveling Baseball Information Meeting - Junior High - 6-8 pm

Feb 12 - Registration Opens 8pm (Early Bird Discount of $25 if register before Feb 27)

Feb 27 - Traveling Baseball Registration Closes

Mar 30 - In House Registration Closes

Mar 31 - Apr 1 - Traveling Baseball Tryouts - High School

Jun 22-24 - Shakopee Tournament

Jul 21 - In House Tournament

Zak “Rookie” Hoffman signed his letter of intent to play baseball at St. Cloud State University in 2012-2013 on November 11, 2011.  Zak was SCSU’s #1 baseball recruit, and we’re all very excited for him. 

And congratulations to senior centerfielder Matt Conrad who recently announced his intent to attend Bethel University in Arden Hills, MN, next fall and will be playing baseball for Coach Brian Raabe and the Royals! 

Our Saber Indoor Spring Training is run by Varsity Head Baseball Coach Tom Schleper, his staff, and players on Sundays in February and March. The goal of Saber Spring Training is for players age 10-15 (age as of May 1, 2012) to learn proper hitting, pitching, and/or fielding techniques heading into the summer baseball season. Hitters will be instructed by coaches and players and will work their way through a 10-station indoor hitting circuit set up at Shakopee Middle School in which they will take 150-to-200 swings each session. Pitchers will learn the proper warm-up technique for throwing, grips, off-speed pitches, and wind-up/stretch/pickoffs as needed by age level, including "bull pen" work off of our 10 indoor mounds set up at Shakopee High School. Each session is limited to the first 20 players. Infield sessions will be 1 1/2 hours long and will be run at Shakopee Middle School by former professional infielder Jeff Jonckowski; limited to 10 players per session. Please see the Spring Training tab on the www.shakopeeyouthbaseball.com website for registration details.

March 31 & April 1 - this is the second weekend of Spring Break so please make your plans accordingly

SYBA would like to explain the reason for the March 30-31 tryout dates (end of spring break). Unfortunately, our options are limited this year to the two weekends of spring break: the weekend before spring break is still winter sports’ tournaments, so we cannot interfere with those. The weekend after spring break is Easter weekend. The weekend after Easter is when some baseball tournaments/schedules begin – coaches have been pushing for earlier decisions on teams for practices, as it is – that weekend would be too late to try to just begin forming teams. This leaves us with only those two spring break weekends. We chose the later of the two, hoping for a possibility to have partial tryouts outside and giving players more time to prepare for tryouts. Announcing the tryout dates this early, hopefully, allows most families to still schedule their spring break vacations without missing tryouts. SYBA does plan to offer more pre-tryout practices where coaches will be evaluating players while working with the players. Travel directors will have more flexibility with forming teams as players’ past performance/evaluations and these pre-tryout practices will help coaches finalize their teams. If a player cannot attend tryouts, he will still be available for coaches to draft onto the various travel teams.

We hope this helps clarify the decision, and as always, please contact any board member if you have any questions or concerns.
 

Updated 11/15/11 - For the 2012 MBT/MBL season all bats in the 10 ? 14 year old age group, big barrel bats must have the NEW USSSA Approved 1.15 BPF stamp on its taper, Babe Ruth Approved 1.15 BPF stamp or BBCOR stamp. For small barrel bats (2 1/4") use all of the above stamps or you can also use bats that have the old approved USSSA mark. 15 year olds must use a BBCOR bat (Batted Ball Coefficient or Restitution). See link below. 

http://www.usssa.com/usssa/usssa-general/NewUSSSABaseballBatMarks.pdf

Please check Metro Baseball website (https://www.mbl.bz/mbl/) for additional bat information.

This meeting will explain the different traveling baseball options and the philosophy of traveling baseball. If you are new to traveling baseball, this meeting is essential and will answer your questions about what Shakopee traveling baseball is all about including cost and time commitments.

6:00 – 7:00     Uniform sizing
7:00 – 8:00     Meeting

Tourney for all three levels (A, AA, AAA) of 10’s, 11’s and 12’s

Thanks to everyone who attended the 2011 Annual Meeting.  We received some valuable feedback as we start making plans for the 2012 season.

Below is a brief summary of the 2011 season. 

www.shakopeebaseball.com

www.coyotesbaseball.org

A longtime high school coach explains why encouraging multi-sport participation is in everyone's best interest.