Darien Stars Part-Time Travel Baseball Guidelines
Date of Amended Guidelines: October 15, 2015
DARIEN STARS BASEBALL (PART TIME) TRAVEL DIRECTOR
The baseball travel director oversees the entire DYC travel
baseball program for the following age groups: 9U, 10U, 11U, 12U, 13U and 14U. The baseball travel director is an elected
position. The baseball travel director responsibilities
include, but are not limited to: naming the team, assigning and managing
coaches, scheduling and rescheduling games, coordinating and executing travel
team tryout/evaluations, selecting and managing umpires, securing uniforms and
equipment, assisting teams in building an off season regimen, coordinating national
travel tournaments, tracking all program expenditures by player and by team, directly
submitting invoices and/or funds to deposit to DYC Treasurer, submitting an annual budget, submitting a
final cost of expenditures, marketing the baseball program, securing
partnerships and sponsorships, working in tandem with DYC Baseball
Commissioner, keep consistent with the values of the Darien Youth Club, base
decisions on its impact on the entire DYC baseball program, not just the travel
program, and consistently reinforce the most important goal of good
sportsmanship and respect for opponents.
GENERAL
- All participants will register for the DYC baseball program in order to participate in the travel program.
- All costs for the part time travel baseball league will be incurred by the families of the part time travel baseball players.
- All travel families will pay an upfront fee of $100 at the tryout that is non-refundable, but does get applied to that families travel baseball expenses.
- The teams play 10 league games against other in house travel teams throughout Chicagoland in the CLSB
- Travel Teams also are strongly encouraged to participate in travel tournaments and non-conference games
- The DYC Travel Baseball program is a part time travel program that coincides with the same months as the DYC in house baseball program.
- DYC Travel Baseball selects players to participate in their program, as spots are limited.
- Each parent MUST sign our Travel team code of conduct in order to have their child participate.
TRYOUT/EVALUATION
- There are two public tryouts scheduled annually.
- There is also a tryout for players that have parents that want to coach.
- Prior to the public tryouts the baseball travel director will hold a tryout for all participants who have parents interested in coaching a travel team.
- At the end of those tryouts, the baseball travel director will assign travel coaches for each participating age group.
- If there is not a coach assigned, then it is the baseball travel director’s discretion to assign a coach at a later date.
- The public tryouts will be conducted by the baseball travel director, baseball commissioner and the assigned travel baseball coach for that age group.
- The 1st public tryout will be held in the summer, and 2nd public tryout will be in the fall. Games are played the following spring and summer.
- At the end of the 2nd public tryout, the baseball travel director will make a determination on which age groups will have a travel team for the upcoming year.
TEAM SELECTIONS
- Team selections are made by the tournament director, baseball commissioner and coach from that age group.
- Coaches take many factors into account when selecting players including, but not limited to: tryout process scores, in house production, previous evaluation scores, and participation the DYC programs
- If a full roster of at least 12 players is not secured after the 2nd tryout, coaches can directly secure players to fill remaining roster spots.
- Players that participated in tryouts may not be removed for players that did not participate in tryouts.
- Players that don’t have enough players for a team at their age group can be considered to play up to the next age level.
- Any player that is chosen to play up from their current age group must do so in travel and in house games.
- Players that do have a team a there age group, but want to play up, will be strongly recommended to stay at their respective age group.
- The final decision about playing up is the baseball commissioners after discussion with the tournament director and director from that league.
- Players in their own age group are given more consideration than players playing up.
- Players that have played in Darien travel baseball previously accrue an additional 1 point on their evaluation for every year they have participated in Darien travel baseball.
- Players’ coaches previous season in house evaluations are also used in evaluation process, an average consensus ranking will be used to determine the players’ value.
CALL UP RULES
- The travel coach will work with the in house director for that age division and baseball commissioner to create an approved in house call up list.
- Can only participate if there are 10 or less players participating.
- Individual call ups can play a maximum of 3 games
- Each travel coach will keep log of all innings pitched.
- Innings pitched requirement take into account all innings accumulated by a player during In house games and travel games.
- Players will adhere to the pitching rules provided in the DYC In House baseball league rules for each age division this includes maximum inning pitched per game, and per week.
- No pitcher can pitch three days in a row, regardless if other inning maximums have not been met.
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