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Showcase  | Story | 1/21/2015

PG Notebook: January 21

Patrick Ebert
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If you have a question you would like answered please send Patrick Ebert an email at pebert@perfectgame.org or send him a Tweet @PGPatrickEbert.

Based on the amount of phone calls and emails we received there's a good chance you received, or at least read, the release last week pertaining to the dates of our 2015 Jr. National Showcase (June 14-16, Fort Myers, Fla.), National Showcase (June 17-22, Fort Myers, Fla.) and PG All-American Classic (August 16, San Diego, Calif.). It should be noted that this release was to announce the dates for these events and not serve as an official invitation.

The invitations for the 2015 Jr. National (classes of 2017 and 2018) and National (class of 2016) Showcases should be sent out via snail mail and email in the coming weeks, while the players for the Perfect Game All-American Classic are selected by our scouting staff based on observations made between now and early July, with most of the decisions being made during and at the conclusion of the National Showcase.

If you don't receive an invitation for the Jr. National and National events there are some steps you can take to do so:

• For the Jr. National Showcase, visit the event page on the Perfect Game site and click on the “Request an Invite” graphic. We do not offer or accept invitation requests for the National Showcase, as all invites for that event are determined internally.

• Not all requests are granted, at least not immediately. Quite often our scouting staff will need to see the players requesting an invitation prior to extending one. The best way to be seen by our staff is to attend one of our events leading up to the Jr. National and National Showcases.

• The best events to be evaluated are at one of our Sunshine Showcases, but there are other events late this winter and into the spring that would provide the opportunity for players to be evaluated and considered for invitation. Those events include:

Pitcher/Catcher Indoor Showcase, Feb. 7-8, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
National Indoor Showcase, Feb. 21, Bridgeton, Mo.
Northeast Indoor Showcase, Feb. 28, Farmingdale, N.J.
Spring Top Prospect Showcase, April 18-19, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Sunshine East Showcase, May 16-17, Fort Myers, Fla.
Rocky Mountain Showcase, May 23-24, Greenwood Village, Colo.
National Academic Showcase, May 30-31, Emerson, Ga.
Sunshine Southeast Showcase, May 30-31, Emerson, Ga.
Sunshine Northeast Showcase, June 6-7, location TBD
Sunshine South Showcase, June 6-7, Tomball, Texas
Sunshine West Showcase, June 13-14, Chula Vista, Calif.

To view the entire 2015 Perfect Game showcase schedule please visit this link:

https://www.perfectgame.org/Schedule/Default.aspx?Type=Showcases

If you have any questions pertaining to individual events, please call our main office at 319-298-2923 and select 'Showcases' when prompted.




This question somewhat relates to the release of our 2015 showcase schedule as noted above. Attending any one of our showcase events immediately gives any player additional exposure, not only to professional scouts, but to college recruiters. If the player in question is a high-level student that gets good grades, has a high GPA and has scored high on his ACTs and/or SATs, the National Academic Showcase in particular is tailored specifically to gain exposure for such students in front of schools that have elevated admission standards.

Affiliating yourself with a travel ball organization for the summer is also an important step for exposure. Thousands of teams travel to numerous Perfect Game tournament events over the summer to not only seek exposure, but to compete, giving all players a better gauge at what they need to do to improve their games by playing with and against the best players in the country.

Our largest tournament events are held in Emerson, Ga., home to the WWBA National Championships (wood bats). Fort Myers, Fla. is the home to our BCS Finals (composite bats) series, but there are plenty of other events a player could attend.

To view the full tournament schedule for 2015, please visit this link:

https://www.perfectgame.org/Schedule/Default.aspx?Type=Tournaments

Being a junior in high school is a critical time for a player to gain exposure, so the more things one can do to potentially further one's aspiring baseball career the better. The summer before a player's senior year in high school, referred to as the summer scouting circuit, can often be more critical than the spring of the player's senior year.

If you are uncommitted looking for additional exposure during your senior year in high school, we do have a few designated uncommitted events in the late fall and early winter, including the recently completed World Uncommitted Showcase held in Fort Myers, Fla., that go a long way to help players make connections to colleges.
 
And as mentioned above, if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to pick up the phone and call our main office. Our scouting staff and tournament directors will provide helpful tips ranging from the best events to attend in addition to providing direction on some of the top travel ball organizations in your area.


All-Tournament Teams

This afternoon we released our All-Tournament teams from the 14u, 16u and 18u Perfect Game MLK Championships held last weekend at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Ariz. Every time such a feature is released we receive a significant amount of feedback from players, parents and coaches pertaining to why a certain player was left off the list.

One of the most frequent questions I receive asks how the teams are assembled. For the most part the selection process has to do with a player's statistical performance. The hitters are filtered by batting average, but that is not the only category used for selection. Category leaders in the prominent run-producing categories, since these are team-based events, are given significant consideration, especially to players that play for the teams that advance to the playoffs. First-hand observations from our scouting staff are also weighed.

And there have been instances in which players that don't fare particularly well at the plate are included for their defensive merits, and/or players who have only one hit (or a small handful of them), but that hit was crucial in their team's success in that particular event.

At the top of each All-Tournament feature I list the cutoffs for consideration. And the comment “to qualify for consideration” is especially noteworthy since that only means that players that reach those thresholds aren't automatically included on the team. Those thresholds have to be put in place for the honor of being selected to hold value. Depending on the size of the tournament, 10 to 20 percent of all players that participate are selected to the All-Tournament team. The larger the tournament, the lower the percentage given the sheer volume of players in attendance.

Without a doubt tough decisions have to be made, and we do recognize how important the players, parents and coaches take these honors. This will likely be a recurring topic in this notebook over the course of the summer.


2015 MLB Draft order nearly set

With the Washington Nationals eye-popping signing of free agent starter Max Scherzer, only one free agent remains that could effect the 2015 MLB Draft order, James Shields. Now that Shields is the biggest name remaining on the market it shouldn't take long for the 2015 draft order to become official.

The past few years the official draft order wasn't known until essentially the time of the draft as free agents such as Stephen Drew and Kendrys Morales went unsigned through the entire process since no team was willing to part with an early draft pick for either player.

To view the current order, where it was when the 2014 season ended, who signed where and how those signings effected the changes, please visit this link:

https://www.perfectgame.org/Articles/View.aspx?article=10586

 
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