How do you get drafted for major league baseball when your stats aren't great?
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You ever thought about videotaping your workout drills with yourself at various positions that you know for sure you can actually play. The key word is "actually", How's your bat? is it fast enough through the strike the zone? Do you frequently visit batting cages? these are ways you can show a Major League ball club that you are worth taking a chance on. Others would be to try out for Minor League teams and see where you stand. If any one can tell you, it would be a Minor League coach wether you have enough to make the show, or tell you what you really need to improve on!
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Um... be really good at baseball and hope some scouts notice you.
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its VERY rare that a team calls up a player from A ball to the majors, although from time to time players in AA get the call....dontrelle willis from the marlins is a great example of a player who went from AA to the majors with great success.\n\nGenerally, yes, the talent level at AAA is greater than at other levels, although sometimes AAA rosters are filled with several players who are "career" minor leaguers...ones that just dont have the "stuff" to play in the majors.   Often times AA has players with more sheer "talent", but those players just dont yet have enough experience to be able to succeed at the major league level.\n\nteams assign players to the different levels of the minor league system first by experience.  nearly every player starts out in a rookie league or low level A team.  the very best players however will quickly advance thru levels, opften times being promoted twice or more in their first couple of seasons.  promotions after that are based on the players production and talent and the immediate needs of the major league club.\n\nin addtion to teams using the minor leagues to eventually fill their own mlb roster, minor leaguers are very often used in trades.  if you check out the mlb transactions, you will see that a large percentage of teams when trading players will include minor leaguers.  teams often will trade high level mlb talent for another teams "top" minor league prospects.  its always a guessing game as to which team got the better deal...sometimes it takes years to actually and accurately gauge it.\n\nalmost all teams have "good" affialtes.  there are literally hundreds of minor league teams......chances are you are within 30-60 miles of one(not a guarantee, but a good chance)......check it out and go see a game soon......even if you dont like or root for the "parent" team, its fun to watch guys who play the game for next to no money and most oten are more available to the fan base for autographs and such, as compared to their mlb counterparts.....and just think how cool it would be to have watched a youngster in the minors perhaps become a well known major leaguer after a few years.\n\ni hope this cleared up some of your questions.
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Basically you make a team and select the Live Online Draft option when your creating a team. Then you are placed in a league with a live draft and on the draft date you log on and make your picks. The following will help you get you there:\n\nGet a Team->Join Existing Custom or Public League->Join a Public League->select the "Live Online Draft" draft option.
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Team one decent batting, need pitching.\n\nTeam two good pitching, and decent batting.\n\nGet pitching now.\n\nQuarter way through season change some batting.\n\nI'm no expert, though I play and have a decent record.
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Great baseball, like all sports, starts with fundamentals.  It takes practice to improve your basics.  As the famous line from the movie "Bull Durham" says, "It's a simple game; you throw the ball, you catch the ball, you hit the ball."\n\nStart by trying to figure out what your team is struggling with the most.  Is it offense--being patient at the plate, making good contact, putting the ball into play where it's less likely to be caught?  Or is it defense--knowing where to put the glove to catch or field the ball, keeping your body low and in front of the ball, knowing where (and how) to throw the ball?  \n\nPick one area--hitting to the opposite field, throwing to the cutoff player--and drill on it until everyone is proficient at it.  At the same time, work other fundamentals in as well, like fielding fly balls and grounders.  At your next practice, pick another improvement area and focus on that.  It's not rocket science, but it will get the players to start feeling more competent about their abilities.
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why dont you try out for reciever or quarter back. i would perfer reciever since your a good catcher and a strong runner.
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it is critical to have a good offense because that is much more important than pitching. pitching is important, but i say hitting is more important because there will be plenty of available pitchers on waivers for you to pick up whether by prospects who get called up or someone that gets hot after the all star break. just try your best to have good players on both sides.\n\ntry not to overload on hitters. since there are baseball games almost every day you should just keep a minimum of 2 bench hitters and do not top that. use more of your bench on pitchers because then you will get more strikeouts wins and saves. it is a must to have more than the two closers (RP spot, usually there are two of them on default) because this will help you win the saves category every week. \n\nit really depends on the categories to decide who you should get but nonetheless i keep it simple for whatever type categories you might find in your head to head league: \n\n\nhitters-get sluggers home run hitters, you get alot of home run hitters and youll be better off to win home runs rbis runs. try to get these guys for catcher, first base, third base, outfield and utility spots. for the middle infield 2nd basemans and shortstops try and add your top of the lineup hitters (leadoff guys). the perfect kinds of hitters that have power and speed and hit at the top of the lineup are guys like sizemore and granderson, theyll win you the title.\n\npitchers-get younger flamethrowers. thats all you need to do to win. high strikeout pitchers in their prime like capuano, oswalt, zambrano; get those kind of guys. and if not them add veterans who have experience like glavine maddux randy.
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They give you points for if you are winning the best of a category. For example, if you had ERA, and you had 4.12, and you were in first place, then you'd get one point. If somebody had passed you in ERA and had 4.02, then you'd lose that point. You need to pick the best batters and pitchers you can, but don't pick Albert Pujols right now.
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I would give your team an 8.  Posada's not a top tier catcher anymore. Ortiz and A-Rod will put up monster numbers, Utley puts up great numbers for 2B, Jeter puts up some of the best stats for a SS, Matsui is a keeper, Griffey is questionable because of his injury problems, Giles numbers have been down in recent years, Santana is a dominant pitcher with little run support, Beckett's WHIP and ERA will jump a little going into the AL, Johnson will have solid numbers, Colon is questionable, and Rivera is still great.  You seem to be lacking in stolen bases, you might trade Colon for a pitcher with better WHIP and ERA, and you need another RP.
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I assume you're talking about fantasy sports (baseball?). Click on the "join now" button. Then choose the second option: join existing custom or public league. On the new page, choose "join custom league". At that point, it will ask you for the league ID and password. Then, follow the prompts to set up your team.
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Always go for the best available player in the first half of the draft.  Try and focus on infield positions first, as top players are each position are limited.  The only reason to grab a outfield player early is if they fall farther than expected (such as getting A. Jones or A. Dunn in round 4 or something).  Its worked for me.  I've won our league 2 of the 3 years.  Let me know if you have any more questions.
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http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/draft/drafttracker\n\nHere is a site that has what your looking for.  Rememeber there are 50 rounds in the MLB draft
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It depends a lot on what your fantasy league scoring/stat categories are, but assuming that they are fairly typical offensive categories (R,HR,RBI,BA or OBP, SB)\n\nBy pre-season rankings, Jeff Kent was ranked closest in value to Jeter, but a little lower, so you might have to throw someone else into a trade.\n\nJeter's been a solid performer so far this year, though - even better than projected, (probably one of the top 10 overall position players by overall ranking) and unfortunately Kent hasn't produced consistently this year, and the players on your roster aren't really of comparable value when you compare overall stats to Jeter head to head.\n\nThat said, the fairness of a trade in fantasy sports often has to do with the needs of both teams involved.  So, for example, if the team who has Jeter is in need of strength in a particular category, say HR, for example, and you feel your team needs Runs, then Konerko might be an even trade, since Jeter is a top-20 Runs guy, and Konerko is a top-20 HRs guy.  The best way to make the trade fair is to look at what stat categories are weak for each team and to try to balance the trade to pick up strength for each.
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None.  It is rare for college kids to even to straight to the majors.  \n\nHighschool kids that are drafted are place in the minor league system usually rookie ball since the season for the other levels has already started when they come out of highschool.  They then have to move up to the majors through the farm system.  This usually takes several years for the few that make it that far.
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Depending on the side of the ball you come from... Based on the way things are going?  Payroll  Because you can buy a great team and build a winning tradition.  The team may not win the World Series every year but they will always be in contention.\n\nIf you want real stats from a analitical point on players:\n\nTraditionally, statistics like batting average for batters (the number of hits divided by the number of at bats) and earned run average (approximately the number of runs given up by a pitcher per nine innings) have governed the statistical world of baseball. However, the advent of sabermetrics brought an onslaught of new statistics that better gauge a player's performance and contributions to his team from year to year.\n\nSome sabermetric statistics have entered the mainstream baseball world. Among statistics that do an excellent job of measuring a batter's performance, On-base plus slugging (OPS) is the easiest to calculate. It adds the hitter's on base percentage ([hits + walks + number of times hit by pitches] divided by [number of times at bat + walks + number of times hit by a pitch + number of sacrifice flies]) to his or her slugging percentage (total bases divided by at bats). Some argue that the OPS formula is flawed and that more weight should be shifted towards OBP (on base percentage). Regardless, OPS still stands as the most direct means of evaluating a hitter's performance using readily available statistics.
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The best ways to get into MLB if you do not come from one of the few scouted high schools in the country are ... \n\nPlay baseball for a college team that gets scouted. Just research what college teams current MLB players came from and see what it will take for you to get on one of those teams. \n\nMLB teams have tryout camps at the start of the season. This is a very big longsot at best. Few are ever signed and those who are often get released before they can get off the bus at the minor leage level. \n\nAnother way to get noticed is to play for an independent league. Especially for a team that has ex-MLB players trying to make it back. Scouts may notice you while they are scouting the ex-MLB player. \n\nMLB has tryout camps in places like the Dominican republic. You might possibly be able to get into one of those camps. \n\nJapan is always hungry for forign talent that can help. You might have to play in Taiwan for a year or two first to get noticed by Japan. Still it might be worth a try. \n\nBlackmail a scout into taking a look at you :) Just kidding on this one. Though if you have films of you playing, the right presentation, you might be able to talk a scout into looking at you if you are persistant enough. \n\nMost importantly dont' give up. If you really want to play you can make it happen. Mike Piazza a certain hall of famer was signed purely as a favor. The system is weighted heavily towards height and who looks like a baseball player today. Still exceptions happen. Brian Giles and Edgar Martinez are proof that the physical profile concept is a waste of time and excludes many of the best potential prospects in the game. Both of them almost did not make the majors because they did not fit the profile yet turned out to be big stars when they finaly did get to play.