What are the steps from highschool to becoming a pro baseball player for the K.C. Royals?
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I'm a Royals fan and I'll admit that it isn't a long stay in the minors before being called up to the majors in the Royals organization.  \n\nThe road to the majors starts with the draft or getting an invite to the club's spring traning tryouts.  If they sign you, you will be designated for assignment.  This means that they will place you on one of the teams in their organization, ranging from the parent club (MLB) down to low level affiliates such as Class A, Short-Season, or Rookie League.  If you are not signed, you could take an alternate route and play in the independent minor leagues and hope to get noticed.  But basically put, they scout/sign you then you work your way up the system.
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Quit the team and play Baseball.
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What I would do if I were starting a selective 14-15 yr. old team would first be to spread the word of a tryout. Talk to nearby High School coaches and ask them for any athlete contacts. Put an add in the newspaper. Make lots of phone calls. Next, hold a tryout and assemble a team. Hold practices. Sign up for games to be played and tournaments to be played in. I'm not sure of the overall cost, but you could potentially get some sponsors to help shoulder the load. Most baseball tournaments are at least 200$ per team. Next is uniforms, travel, overnight stay, etc. Good luck with your team!
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Sigh.  The Bruins are a hockey team.  The Expos are now the Washington Nationals.  But you'd play for the Royals.  They'll take anybody!
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The easiest place to do it is through yahoo. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/ is the page where you'd sign up. Just click on the join league link and you'll be directed where to go from there.
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Typically you don't start out calling high school games.  Personally, I would find a baseball facility in a well-to-do area near where you live and ask around about how to get in contact with the person in charge of umpires (sometimes called the assignor).  Find out if they need help, which they almost always do, and what the pay schedule is for age groups, field size and level of play.  You'll also need to ask about equipment and uniforms, some places like where I call require you to purchase certain shirts and pants to even be considered for games. \n\nThen once you feel comfortable calling 9-18 year olds, you typically have to attend a training/rules class for high school baseball before you can be scheduled to call those games.\n\nGood luck.
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They should be a little more interesting to watch...Alex Gordon > 2005 college player of the year >2006 Minor League player of the year >2007 we'll see, but Gordon has a chance to be a star..\n\nBilly Butler is only 20, and, he can flat out hit, will he make the big club?\n\nIt would be nice to see Mike Sweeney actually play a full season, it is a contract year for Sweeney so he's going to have a little more incentive than usual to put up numbers...\n\nMark Teahen is one of the best young 3B in all of baseball, \n\nDavid Dejesus plays gold glove caliber defense,no that's not right actually he played better defense last year than any of the three(OF) gold glove winners in the AL.  I look for his offensive numbers to get slightly better next year...\n\nEstaban German is playing winter ball in hopes of improving his defense to the point he would no longer be a liability in the field...\n\nThe Royals need to do something about Catcher and Shortstop...John Buck and Angel Berroa have got to go...\n\nMark Grudzielanek will be solid again at second...\n\nEmil Brown improved his defense to the point last year that he's now a solid ML outfielder....\n\nAlmost no matter what the Royals do with their pitching staff next year it could not be any worse than 2006...I don't look for any huge improvement, but, I do look for the pitching to be a little better...\n\nI don't look for Luke Hochaver to start the season in KC but maybe by the All Star break they will give him a shot...\n\nJimmy Gobble has good stuff he just need to learn to keep the ball in the park...\n\nHudson - Hernandez - Redman, should at least burn up some innings\n\nThe bullpen should be improved.\n\nThe Royals are not going to go .500 next year, but they should win a few more games..Hopefully the young guys will make a big splash...
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I am going to assume that you already know how to play and practice every day(because that is what pros do).\n\nMake sure your health and nutrition are in check.\n\nJoin a local league. Once you can dominate that, go to regional competitions. Once you have mastered that, you can start going to USTA futures events. Woek your way up through the ranks. Then challenger events. Do well enough in those and you may get a wild card into a main draw in an official ATP event. \n\nIf you have a lot of money, you can attempt to bribe someone you know who has a challenger event to give you a wildcard. Even if you lose the first round, which you probably will no matter how good you are, you get enough ranking points to play in challengers for a while.\n\nI dont know how old you are. If you are in high school, one of the major problems with American tennis is that young people try to go straight to the pros and ignore the valuable resource that is college tennis. If you are good enough to go pro, you are good enough for a tennis scholarship, meaning you are getting four years of college education and top quality coaching for four years for free. You will also be able to get some buzz and contacts for your career. And, that way, if you have a bad injury or decide that you dont want to do tennis, you have something to fall back on.
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There are two schools that you must attend to become a professional umpire.  They begin usually the fitsrt full week in January and go for 5 weeks.  They are both located in Florida.  One is the Harry Wendlestedt School and the other is Jim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring.  For college you should find a local high school or summer league association and branch out from there.  Most Junior Colleges use high school guys with experience.  The upper divisions usually use umpires that have attended pro school and didn't make it, or guys with lots of years and experience.
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If you are talking about straight out of High School direct to any level of professional baseball it is well under 1%.  \n\nExample: The Major League Draft Rookie Draft (High School and College) Goes about 28 rounds... can be longer or shorter.  The majority of those drafted are college kids.  Of those who are high schoolers there are usually only a few who sign and typically only if drafted in the first five rounds. (Where the money is!) Most high school kids that are drafted go on to college and get redrafted at a higher level later for more money if they prove themselves.  \n\nWalk on's are almost non-existent at the high school level.
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first u have to get a job with a team\nthen u can leave and work directly for MLB\nu can eventually work ur way up\nthey always hire within company
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lift some weights, get to know the game, practice, practice, practice, join a team prefferably hs team thats how u get noticed by colleges, join a college team and hope u are good enough to be scouted
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He is retired.. has not played in the major leagues since 2003. He was last with the minor league team of the Kansas City Royals in 2004-2005.
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You need to get experience, usually in the local Little League level or College level.  Then you go to Umpire school, umpire for a number of years in the minors, and if you are good, get promoted to the Major Leagues.
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im a guy that played baseball all throughtout elementary school and im still playing in high school.
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Joe Horn went to junior college and look at him.  You could try to contact teams, but it's much easier if you just go where they are already looking for players and that's colleges.  If you have ever had any skills, they probably already have scouting reports on you from High School before you dropped out, but most teams would probably worry that if you couldn't dedicate yourself to school, how will you dedicate yourself to a program?  It's an uphill climb. Good luck.
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#1. Become a multi-millionaire (preferably a billionaire)\n\n#2. Contact a commisioner of a league (MLB, AAA, AA, ect.)\n\n#3. Buy franchise from other rich dude.