Manatee Adult Baseball Training Games

Training Games

Training Games primarily are for the benefit of existing and anticipated roster players. While you do not have to be a roster player, or even be 30 years of age or older, to play in Training Games, preference is given to roster players, then to non-roster registered players, then to non-registered players who are at least 30 years of age, then to any other players. Game fees for the first Training Game of a series of Training Games is $13 for registered players and $15 for non-registered players. If we have more than 1 umpire at a game, then the fees for those playing in the NEXT training game of the series will be adjusted accordingly.

To have a Training Game, we must have a minimum of 20 reservations. We TRY to have a maximum of 24 players for each field BUT reserve the right to adjust the number of players per field to make the "trip to the field" meaningful for all in attendance. If we expand rosters for the game we will attempt to have extra-innings so that each player has the opportunity for the same amount of playing time as if the rosters were smaller.

Uniforms will be "ALL STAR" format, but FULL BASEBALL UNIFORMS, please. (T-shirt replica jerseys and our League t-shirts are acceptable, but NOT preferred.) Appearance may be a factor in selecting players to play in training games.

After the "Call for Players" response time (usually Monday at 7 PM for Wednesday Training Games), any players who are given a reservation or allowed to play may be charged an extra $3.

RESERVATIONS POLICY.

For our Training Games, Special Games and other Special Events, we make commitments based upon clearly defined participation goals. In order to determine whether we can expect to meet those participation goals, we issue a call for reservations with a clearly set cut-off date and time. At that cut-off date and time, we make our "Go/No-Go" decision based upon those reservations. Consequently, any who has a reservation who cannot fulfill that reservation will be charged for the activity unless 1) they cancel the reservation a reasonable time before the event AND 2) we reach our participation goals without them fulfilling the reservation. The League reserves the right for ANY reason to charge for the reservation even if these two conditions are met.

Reservations

A list of confirmed reservations, and the order of assignment off of the waiting / second game list will be posted to this webpage on Monday evening. All assignment priorities are subject to change without notice. Players with reservations 1 through 24 will play even if the only is one game. Players with reservations # 25 and higher can use the second field, 1f available for any appropriate purpose as long as sunlight is available.

A note about late cancellations: Charges for Training games and Special games are handled differently than charges for regularly scheduled games. All roster players are charged for regularly scheduled games. Accordingly, the decisions of players to come to the fields are not significantly effected by players who do not attend. HOWEVER, for Training games and Special games, only those players requesting reservations as of the time that the assignment prioirty list is posted are charged. Many players do not have to worry about attending if they have not requested a reservation. Many players (basically those with assignment numbers greater than 24) make their decisions to come to the field in reliance upon those who say that they will show up, actually showing up. When players requesting a reservation do not show up, then other players coming out to the field because the number of reservations indicate that they will get to play, risk coming to the field but not being able to play because there are not enough players. Many times, it does no harm because of the number of players who actually do attend. Ocassionally, players not honoring the comnitment from their reservations may cause other players to make a wasted trip to the fields in addition to frustrating their legitimate expectatons of being able to play. We do everything that we can do to avoid this happening BUT it really is up to those who say that they will show up to actually show up. We ALL rely upon EACH OTHER!

If you request a reservation and then must cancel, then please do EVERYTHING that you can do to get your name off the reservation list BEFORE it is posted Monday evening!

Reservations may change at any time in order to honor the preferences described above. Please check this list again just before heading to the fields.

We will do everything that we in fairness can do to make sure that no-one makes a wasted trip to the fields (including maybe paying the umpires a little more and playing extra innings).

IF we can get players who do not have a reservation into the game, then they will be charged $2 extra.


	January 25, 2012

1	Sr
2	Jr
3	Else
4	Lazaris
5	McInerny
6	Deming
7	Mahaffey
8	Bowman
9	Balam
10	Pulcinella
11	Bodi
12	Lazar
13	Hathaway
14	Knerr
15	Fernandez
16	Fernandez friend
17	Zdanewiscz
18	Schindler
19	Kuehl
20	Greisheimer?
21	O'Rourke
22	Pickett
23	Brodowski
24	Hodsdon
25	Farrier
	Costello

If your name is not on this roster, we still encouarge you to indicate your interest.

Send us an e-mail.

E-Mail: Commish@ManateeBaseball.com