Dear SJBB Families:

As noted in the flyer you received previously, SJBB has created a Parent Advisory Committee to provide you with information about the particulars of the SJBB program, be a liaison between parents and the Board with respect to parent issues/concerns and suggestion on ways to improve the SJBB program or further improve successful activities. Below, you will find our first effort which is a summary of how K-2nd grade players are placed on baseball teams and 3rd-9th graders are drafted to baseball teams. We will be providing additional information about the program in the future via e-mail and postings on the website. If you have questions on the summary, please contact Romaney Berson, at .

The Parent Advisory Committee needs volunteers who are interested in working together to help make your child's experience the best it can be. If you have an interest in baseball/softball, have had questions about the program or ideas about ways to make the program better or want to be involved in your child's baseball/softball experience, please consider joining the Committee. Contact Romaney Berson at to volunteer or get more information about the Committee. If the Parent Advisory Committee is not the right place for you to volunteer your time, please go to the SJBB website to see other ways you can volunteer.

Thank you

SJBB

SUMMIT JUNIOR BASEBALL

TEAM MAKE-UP/DRAFT INFORMATION

KINDERGARTEN (T-Ball League), TRANSITION LEAGUES (1^st and 2^nd Grades)

T-Ball League Director: Keith Zusi-  : 908-277-0978 (h)

1^st Grade League Director:  Mat Carlson-  ; 908-598-0286 (h)

2^nd Grade League Director: David Bonomo- ; 908-522-1754(h)

The objective of the league at these early ages is for the children to have fun learning the game of baseball. To this end, SJBB will try to place children with schoolmates and/or other players requested by parent, but can not guarantee the preferred placement. This includes players who attend private schools. At a minimum, the number one priority is to place more than one player and ideally multiple players from the same school, together on a team.

MINOR LEAGUES (3^rd and 4^th Grades), AMERICAN LEAGUE (5^th Grade), NATIONAL LEAGUE (6^th Grade) and SUBURBAN LEAGUE (7-9^th Grades)

3^rd Grade League Director: Jeffrey Miller jmiller2005@gmail.com; 201-739-6301 (c)

4^th Grade League Director: Michael Tarashuk miketarashuk@comcast.net; 908-598-0983 (h)

5^th Grade League Directors: Carlos Aguilera - ; 908-9181165 (h)

                                                  Steve Myers – ; 908-447-3762 (h)

6^th Grade League Director: Sam Coburn – : 908-277-1256(h)

7-9^th Grades League Director: Robert Vitti – ; 908-522-1016 (h)

Players in these leagues attend skill assessment sessions based on their grade. At the assessment, players are evaluated based on a 1-10 scale (the better the skill level the lower the rating number) for their throwing, batting, fielding, base running and pitching.

A draft day will be established at the end of February or early March with each grade allocated a specific time slot. The Suburban League draft is typically one week after the draft for the Minor, American and National Leagues. This year’s Minor, American and National League drafts are scheduled for Sunday, March 7, 2010, with the Suburban League Draft scheduled for Sunday, March 14, 2010.

Coaches and/or Assistant coaches representing each team will attend the draft to select their teams. If for some reason no coaches are available to attend the draft, the League Directors will choose the team(s) for the missing coaches. New for 2010, coaches are selected by the Executive Committee of SJBB based on criteria set by the Board to result in the best possible coaching experience for players. Coaches will select their Assistant Coach, subject to review by the Executive Committee’s approval, considering the skill level of the two Coaches’ children who will automatically be on their parents’ team.

Each player will have an assigned number that Coaches will not know, i.e. the draft is blind to the Coaches. Coaches will have a list of all players by number with their individual skill evaluation scores by category, as well as a cumulative score of the 5 categories in which they were evaluated. Coaches will also have available for consideration, an assessment of the player’s prior year coach, assuming the player played in a SJBB league the prior year. Finally, coaches will have access to other sports any player may be committed to for the spring season.

At the start of the draft, each team will have a cumulative team score based on the Coaches’ children’s overall score. The first rounds of the draft are conducted to allocate the top rated pitchers (based primarily on their pitching evaluation score) across the respective number of teams. For instance, if there are 10 teams in a league, the top 30 rates pitchers will be assigned across the 10 teams. Each pitcher’s overall rating is assigned to the number to his team resulting in a new overall score for the relevant team. Teams select pitchers based on how many they have at a given time, until all teams have an equal number of pitchers up to 3 pitchers per team.

After pitchers have been selected, the team with the highest overall score is given the first choice of the relevant round; the team with the second highest score is given the next pick, and so on through the round. After each round, each team’s overall score is recalculated and the process is repeated with the team with the highest score selecting first in the next round and so on.

The draft will include the necessary number of rounds to allocate all players. At the end of each round and at the conclusion of the draft, all teams are to have a cumulative rating number as close to each other as possible. To achieve this, each team will be told what skill number player they must choose in the relevant round. Other than this requirement, each team will have the ability to choose any player they want. Players that have not been rated prior to the draft will be randomly selected after all the rated players are chosen.

Coaches will be given the names and information relating to the players they drafted within a reasonable period of time following the relevant draft day. The coaches will than have the responsibility to contact each player to introduce themselves and disseminate schedules, rosters, important dates, practices etc.

SUBSEQUENT ADDITIONS/DELETIONS TO A TEAM

Coaches must notify the league if a player quits the team for nay reason, or is injured and cannot play for the remainder of the season. New players added to the league will be allocated first to the team with the least number of players. Once each team has an equal number of players, the team with the lowest overall score at the conclusion of the draft will be assigned the next available player or, subject to SJBB’s discretion and with the prior approval of a player’s parent or guardian, a player of similar skill level may be reassigned from a team that has extra players.