hey i'm from Europe and i'm a great baseball player,how can i be drafted by a MLB team?pls answer me.bye
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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.
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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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There were league tryouts on March 20, 21. There may be some additional tryouts scheduled. Take a look at the schedule at:\nhttp://www.tbonesbaseball.com/schedule/events/
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Everything depends on the set up of your league.  Know the rules, and know the scoring system really well.  Payattention to players that have changed home ballparks, and whether that will help or hurt them.  In a typical league, you don't want to overvalue pitching.\n\nDraft best available player the first few rounds, and then after that start thinking about position scarcity.\n\nMost important: get lucky.
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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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It's too late to sign up for basketball, and baseball hasn't started yet. To sign up for any Yahoo fantasy sport, make sure you have a Yahoo ID and go to fantasysports.yahoo.com. Every sport has its rules. All of them are free, but they have add-ons (like live stats and extended player rankings) that you can buy if you want.\n\nAnyway, you get in a league with other fantasy managers. Everybody drafts a group of real players, and the stats those players pick up during the year are added to your fantasy team's stats. You can trade players with other fantasy managers if you are weak in one area. Good luck!
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try out for an aba team, they have open tryouts and a lot easier to make. check them out abalive dot com . a lot of nba scouts go to some of their games. that or either buy live 06 and create a player.
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If you are that serious about baseball that you would consider a move, try Puerto Rico (U.S.A.).  No passport required, it's a U.S. territory with an excellent baseball program. Good Luck!!
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I have never understood how athletes change citizenship to compete for another country. I think they just have to train here for a year and obtain duel citizenship and they can compete. I would think that posed an ethical issue. I heard last night someone’s father was American so he was competing here. Don't know about grandparents however.
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I know a little bit about this. Hopefully more than you know now.\n\n1) You can. Anyone can enter the draft. A guy I went to college with applied for the NBA draft even though he was lousy and had no chance whatsoever of getting picked. He just thought it would be cool.\n\n2) I know it involved filing official papers with the league.\n\n3) As long as you don't hire an agent, you can maintain any college eligibility you might have left. If you hire an agent, that is the end of that.
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anymore almost every city in the US has soccer leagues.  join a league.  get on a team and then chances are your coach will know someone who knows someone who knows someone who can come scout you for a game and may recruit you to that next level.  \nyou have to be good though.  to play on a professional level you have to have professional skill.  if you are young enough there are many camps in europe where you go to learn how to play soccer and you're pretty much garanteed to get drafted onto a european team then.
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Oh my god yes, I know exactly what you mean. I'm not into the NBA, and I just can't get into baseball anymore (which isn't hard when you're a Cubs fan,) at least not until later in the season. Arena League is ok if you want to go to a game, but I can't get into it like i do the NFL. I spent weeks getting excited over the friggin draft, for christs sake. I check the sports sites every day, knowing damn well nothing of any significance happened, but praying there will be something new. 11 weeks til pre-season...
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There is nothing you can do. You are going to fall behind your peers. Baseball is a team game. Just make sure that you maintain your arm strength.
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Well you have to understand what positions you are lacking in and sign some young fresh players that are hitting well, some pitchers would be heilman, lirano, tomko, and lieber. Some batters would be brossard, hanley ramirez, and brad wilkerson is starting to get hot. That or you can wait it out, but if you want to be a competitor i would recomend you start signing!
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The only way to become a legitimate umpire is to go to umpire school. The only way to make it to MLB is by going to one of the two schools. Then you must be in the top 25 of each schools class that get nominated to MLB. If you make it through that selection you can look forward to 7 - 10 years of minor league umpiring. It's well worth it and a lot of fun if you love the game. It's not cheap and typically a 5 - 6 week program.\n\nJim Evans Academy of Professional Umpiring\nph: 512-335-5959\nemail: jimsacademy@earthlink.net\nwww.umpireacademy.com\n\nHarry Wendelstedt Umpire School\nph: 386-672-4879\nemail: umpsch@aol.com\nwww.umpireschool.com \n\nI think the best umpires come out of Harry's school. At least more seem to make the cut each year! \n\nBY THE WAY THERE ARE MANY WOMEN WHO ARE COMING UP THROUGH THE RANKS! THERE HAS JUST NOT BEEN THAT MANY TRYING FOR THE POSITION IN THE PAST. GO FOR IT!!!!! GOOD LUCK!
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after playing division I basketball, u prolly won't get drafted by an NBA team\nafter college, ur best bet is to play in the NBA devlopmental league or the euro leagues\nfrom there, u can very well make it as a professional\nremember ben wallace went undrafted as well
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Velocity isn't the only thing that matters, but if you can throw hard enough you've probably got a good chance of being a draft pick or getting a scholarship offer to play in college.\n\n85 probably isn't enough by itself, but if you've also got good control, you could be a real impressive prospect.  In the end, though, how far you can make it will really depend on how much work you're willing to put into it.  Obviously you are nowhere near good enough to pitch in the majors right now, and while you may have enough innate talent to make that possible as a goal down the road, it will only happen if you put in a ton of hard work.  Baseball favors effort and training over raw talent more than any other sport.