Thanks to everyone who took part in the  Baseball Swap Meets March 20 and April 24.   There was a great turnout and a lot of gently used baseball equipment changed hands.  Pictures below are from this year's swap meet.  Already looking forward to next year's meet.

The Shakopee Youth Baseball Association's summer in-house and traveling baseball information can be found by viewing this slide show.

SYBA is looking for local businesses interested in purchasing advertising on the new Westminster and Tahpah West baseball fields scoreboards.  If interested or want to learn more, please reach out to SYBA President Jeff Schmitz at jeff.schmitz21@gmail.com.

Additional information can be found here.

With the announcement of our travel teams, SYBA would like to share a few plans we have discussed:

• These announced teams are set, for now. With the expanded timing of fall tryouts through next season, we understand there may be some changes to each roster due to a variety of reasons.  We will be using our replacing players policy in our handbook as our primary guide.
• Our “normal” registration dates will take place in late January/early February for the other ages of travel and in-house/community league. The rest of your travel fee will be due then (approximately $250). We will also accept new registrations for ages 11-14 travel baseball at that time (ages 11-12’s especially need more players so those players who did not make a AAA or AA team at this time can have a full travel team option to play next summer). If we do not have enough players to form an A team, we will have the community league option for those players.  January travel registrations will not bump any players who tried out this fall.  
• We want to develop a positive team culture at each age level to continue to build a strong program; therefore, we will be offering our optional off-season practices to all travel kids at each age level together (i.e. all 11’s or all 12’s will all work out/practice together, including those who did not currently make a AA or AAA team).  We hope this will also lend itself to an easier transition, if we do have to move players to new teams as players and coaches will all be working together. Based on registration numbers next February, we may be adding players to these current rosters in an effort to fill rosters from the A level on up/provide opportunities for all kids to play at the competitive level registered (i.e. we may go to 12 players on each roster if numbers allow). These off-season workouts will help identify these potential roster changes. Again, all players who registered and tried out this fall will practice together this off-season.

Remember, this is our first year using fall tryouts and forming teams to provide optional off-season practices and training together – we know there will be some bumps along the road but will continue to do what we feel is best for all the kids in our program.  As always, we will re-evaluate our tryouts and processes at the end of next summer’s season.

Our Saber Summer Baseball Camp Registration is now open – see information on this link.

Thanks,  Coach Schleper

In House year-end tournament - July 24

We are excited to be playing baseball again, but please remember (so we can keep playing): If you’ve been exposed to someone who has tested positive for Covid-19, it’s your responsibility to self-quartine for 14 days. If out in public, wear a mask, wash hands, & stay 6 ft apart.

Updated for 2019 Season

If you suspect that you are not getting blast emails sent out from SYBA (we send a lot of them), the following articles may help you:

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If these do not appear to help, you can contact Sportsengine by emailing (support@sportngin.com) and ask to check for email suppression.

Hope that helps.

Other baseball training information can be found at http://www.shakopeeyouthbaseball.com/page/show/28988-training