In my opinion, collegiate baseball players are spoiled these days. There are so many ways for them to get exposure in front of the right scouts these days as compared to how it was over fifteen years ago when I played. College players now have a “resume” type history that follows them that also helps in telling their journey thus far in their career. Most collegiate players have multiple scouting reports listed on their Perfect Game profile that has been updated as much as possible to demonstrate their progression in their career. Perfect Game also has a specialized part of their website strictly dedicated to colleges and college players. Perfect Game can now follow these players once they are in college and continue to evaluate their talent level. Resources that are used to evaluate college players consist of the college program in which they are a part of and the summer league that they play in. There are several summer collegiate wood bat leagues that boast some of the top talent in college. The Cape Cod wood bat league has always been a coveted league for the top collegiate talent. Players in this league are invited to play and can expect to be confronted by several agencies and MLB scouts during the summer. The following statement will provide some insight into how many players are drafted that come from the Cape Cod League.
“An analysis Cape League alumni shows 253 CCBL Alumni In the Majors 2012. One in seven current MLB players played in the Cape League. In the June 2012 First-Year Player Draft, 229 CCBL alumni were drafted, with 20 CCBL alumni players chosen in the first and supplementary rounds.” (www.capecodbaseball.org)
Needless to say, in baseball this is an amazing statistic. No other collegiate summer league can say this.
College players can make or break their baseball career by playing in the Cape Cod League. There are other summer collegiate leagues that are slowly making a name for themselves like the Northwoods Wood Bat Collegiate League, and West Coast Collegiate Wood Bat League. Over five years ago, baseball personnel felt that there was a loss by not having enough places for college baseball players to play during the summer. They have been able to fill this gap by creating more summer leagues for these players to play and be seen at such as the Alaskan Wood Bat League. Not only can scouts understand the level of talent of a player who plays in a certain league, but they can now travel to see these players throughout the summer and evaluate them.
On the Perfect Game website, college players are ranked amongst players across the country, have scouting reports written on them, and they are also ranked on what specific range of draft rounds to expect these players to drafted in. Agencies have become dependable on these draft rankings and how they choose which players to recruit. 7 Sports Group is one of those agencies and we created our list of prospects based on the Perfect Game rankings list.
“An analysis Cape League alumni shows 253 CCBL Alumni In the Majors 2012. One in seven current MLB players played in the Cape League. In the June 2012 First-Year Player Draft, 229 CCBL alumni were drafted, with 20 CCBL alumni players chosen in the first and supplementary rounds.” (www.capecodbaseball.org)
Needless to say, in baseball this is an amazing statistic. No other collegiate summer league can say this.
College players can make or break their baseball career by playing in the Cape Cod League. There are other summer collegiate leagues that are slowly making a name for themselves like the Northwoods Wood Bat Collegiate League, and West Coast Collegiate Wood Bat League. Over five years ago, baseball personnel felt that there was a loss by not having enough places for college baseball players to play during the summer. They have been able to fill this gap by creating more summer leagues for these players to play and be seen at such as the Alaskan Wood Bat League. Not only can scouts understand the level of talent of a player who plays in a certain league, but they can now travel to see these players throughout the summer and evaluate them.
On the Perfect Game website, college players are ranked amongst players across the country, have scouting reports written on them, and they are also ranked on what specific range of draft rounds to expect these players to drafted in. Agencies have become dependable on these draft rankings and how they choose which players to recruit. 7 Sports Group is one of those agencies and we created our list of prospects based on the Perfect Game rankings list.
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