What do I need to know about Evaluation day?

• Date-SAT February 22, 2020 with makeups available Thursday February 27, 2020.
• Address is Peter G Schmidt Elementary 237 Dennis St SE Tumwater WA 98501 in gym and commons.
• Your player’s age on the evaluation schedule is their LEAGUE AGE as of August 31, 2020—IF they are 9 now but turn 10 before August 31 their League Age is 10.
• ONLY MINORS and above have evaluations.
• Come a few minutes early before your “appointment time” to check in & get your player number in the commons area.Also remember uniform fittings are happening that day in same location, so plan some time to get that done either before or after the evaluation.
• Players being evaluated should wear tennis shoes as we are in a gym.
• Players may bring their own bat, glove and batting helmet—BUT we have that equipment on hand at the evaluation so don’t purchase IF you don’t have it already. (Dick’s coupons are coming for Mar 7 & 8).
• IF you are unable to come at the scheduled time but can come SAT, please try to come during your division time as the managers from that division will be there doing their evaluations.
• IF you can’t attend on SAT at all, there are makeup evaluations on Thursday FEB 27 at Peter G Schmidt gym-no uniform fitting will take place—the schedule for that is Minors 6:30 PM; Majors 7 PM and JR/Int. at 7:30 PM. Again please come as close to your scheduled time as you can.
• IF you can’t attend either of the evaluation events, you will need to make an appointment for a player agent evaluation.You can request that at [email protected]
• Be patient—we have 272 players to see on Saturday--it’s going to be a long day for everyone.

  Why do we have evaluations?

• Only players league age 8 and above who had a pre-season evaluation can participate in post season (District and Tournament of Champions) tournaments—this include returning players.
• Player’s league age 7 wanting to have an evaluation for Minors should come at the time scheduled for Minors 8 and under.

• Player evaluations are used to determine correct placing for player’s league age 8 to 14 based on age and ability.
• We do NOT cut players but managers and player agents may decide to offer a player a position in a different division that the one which the player signed up to play.For example a player signed up in Minors may be offered either a Majors or AA position based on the evaluation results—parents/players can decline or accept the offered placement to a different division.
• Evaluations by necessity are very quick and are meant to give managers and player agents a method of seeing all the players in a division so they can make draft decisions.
• Evaluations will be looking at form in a skill and we don’t expect home runs in evaluations.

Quick information about Player placement/draft

Parents/players do NOT attend the Draft/placement events—it is for managers/coaches/player agents. 

• DRAFT for Minors and above is FEB 29 at Tumwater Comfort Inn starting at 9 AM with rules review and 2020 safety information.
• Placement meeting for AA & T-ball is MAR 1 at Tumwater Comfort Inn starting at 3 PM.

Property player—any returning 2019 Spring player is property of their Spring 2019 team UNLESS:

• The parent requested a release and placement to another team on the sign up or to the president or player agent.
• The player moved up a division and their team/coach did not
• The team/coach up a division moved up but player did not.
• The player is in AA or T-ball or Challenger Divisions.

Note: Fall 2019 players do not have property rights to their Fall team, but can request placement with that team.

Requests for placement on new team-Minor and above will be communicated to all managers in the division during the Draft process on FEB 29, 2020.  Managers will determine whether they can agree to honor the request. In these divisions there are mandatory team sizes of minimum of 12 and maximum of 15 players.   In Majors division, ALL teams must have the same size roster.  Minors, Intermediate and JR do not have that requirement.  

Requests for placement on AA and T-ball teams will be honored as long as the team size does not exceed 13 players-goal is 12 per team-however friend requests can occasionally make that difficult.

Property rights in AA & T-Ball are honored whenever possible but often parents request new teammates/coaches or coaches don’t return so placement in these divisions are based on request for teammates, coaches and school mates. Managers meet on March 1 to finalize rosters. 

When do we find out our player's team?

We will begin finalizing teams on March 2 and will publish by division—you will get an email indicating your player’s team roster has been activated on the website.  You can then view the team on the team page.  

The plan is to have all teams published as of end of day March 2 but sometimes issues pop up and it may be March 3 before ALL teams are published.

Managers will be able to send emails thru the team website about practices etc. as soon as the team page is activated. 

The Mobile App won’t be activated until probably March 10 so we are sure all teams are finalized (no movement, drop outs or late added player).

Other stuff coming up

March 1—Field Work Party—10 AM to 2 PM.  Get bases set, infield mix on the base paths, clean up garbage, etc.  Parents, players, coaches, managers are asked to help if possible.  WE are an all-volunteer organization so many hands are needed.

March 1-Team Equipment pick up 10 AM to 2 PM--Team managers can pick up team equipment and practice baseballs during the work party time.

March 7—Player pitcher/catcher clinic at Black Hills High school instructed by Todd Venable varsity coach Black Hills High School and his staff/players. Signups will be on web page Tuesday-Feb 18-$20 for 90 minutes.  You can sign up for both Catcher/Pitcher in separate slots. Separate email will be sent on Tuesday Feb 18 with link to the sign up.

March 7 & 8 Dick’s coupons for Capitol LL players 20% off entire order—coupons will be up on system by March 1.

March 20--Mariner’s Little League days tickets will be on sale online again this year.  Game days are Sundays—May 3 vs Houston, May 17 vs Detroit and May 31 vs Atlanta.  Ticket prices this year are $11 each ($10 for ticket and $1 for league for handling). There will be a $3 transaction fee on total purchase as well due to new system’s payment policy. 

April 1—Deadline for Design the 2020 Hat Pin Contest. Separate email will be sent by Feb 17--entries will be available at uniform fitting station FEB 22. Only current 2020 Spring players may submit designs.

April 13-games start for Minors and above.

April 18—Opening day games for all.

Player evaluation schedule 2020: