Are there player age limits to attend baseball showcases?

As the director for Midwest Prospects Showcase we require that players must have completed their freshman year in HS. WE believe players younger than freshman are not ready to see 90mph fastballs and would just be taking a slot away from a dersering older player who may be more qualified for our events.

www.midwestprospects.com

Our showcases require a player to be a varsity caliber player as well as be going into the senior year---this years events are for players Class of 2005 or later

Tom Rizzi
Consulting Director
www.collegeselect.org

What about a player who is already out of highschool?

They are not eligible for our events

You could try contacting Perfect Game. But may I make a comment. Someone had nominated our son, a Juco player, and we received an invitation to an ID camp and Sunshine East. However, when we inquired he was only allowed to attend the ID camp. He received a pretty good rating but that's where it stops. Not being allowed to play an actual game in front of 4 year schools is what hurts a lot of Juco players. The schools want to see your game. My son was a member(just graduating)of a juco world series team, coaches awards, good student, but nobody sees them. There are several members of his team in the same boat. There is something definately wrong with this picture.The same thing happened to my oldest at a different Juco,(you think we would have learned.) Please, showcase directors, there truly is a need for a Juco division showcase. I contacted Perfect Game about this and we were told that his teammates were welcome to come to an ID camp however just a few colleges may attend, more for a rating. They are however looking further into this. Maybe too late for our second son, but hopefully for future Jucos. He plays in two wood bat leagues in the summer so we are still holding out hope that colleges may be in attendance. Anyone need a catcher, (pops 2 flat), who also plays second base and outfield on his summer teams. He also was used as a closer on Legion last year, (fastball gunned at 85) and batters tell us he has a wicked slider. Anyone?
Sorry for venting but as we watch our second son getting ready to hang up his college cleats, early, it truly is heartbreaking and frustrating to him as well as his family.

Midwest Prospects has allowed graduated Seniors attend it's camps with several earning D-1 scholarships with there great play.

If a junior collee player wanted to attend one our camps we would allow it but we would need a recommendation from a pro scout.

The idea is too help college coaches get hooked up with good ball players. The perfect fit for a NY player might be here in the Midwest and South. We have had several players from the east get noticed by Midwest teams who have scholarshiped those players.

Best of luck WNY!!
www.midwestprospects.com

Sounds like a business opportunity to me. There might be a small niche for a JUCO showcase or two.

Regarding "sportsnut's" comment about JUCO players:

Perfect Game has had many Junior College players and graduated seniors attend events. It's just that there are specific events that we showcase JUCO players. The National Predraft and the World Showcase are two of these. The World Showcase has had over 100 Juco players who were later drafted.

We have had many graduated seniors attend events. One that comes immediately to mind is Chris Lambert who attended the PG Northeast Showcase a few years ago.

Chris was a graduated senior who did not get drafted and had no college offers. He was contemplating a year of Prep School.

Immediately after attending the showcase in Wareham, Mass. he was offered free agent contracts by MLB clubs. He was also offered scholarships by schools such as LSU, Clemson and others. He was offered a scholarship at Boston College which was his dream school and that's where he went and he became an All American.

Lambert is now eligible for this year's draft and some say he could go in the first round next month. The idea of an extra year of (high school) Prep School a distant memory. At the time he came to Wareham, where the Wareham Gatemen play in the prestigious Cape Cod League, he wasn't thinking that he might be playing in that league the next year, but he did!

Let me re-specify this question and gear it more towards my situation. Could a 27 year old JUCO player attend any showcases?