Professional Independent Minor League Baseball Tryouts
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This video clip is from the BC League, an independent professional baseball league, in Japan: Here is footage from a Japanese Shikoku League tryout: While not often advertised, occasionally one of the tryouts in the subscription service will have scouts/coaching staff who represent the BC League and Shikoku Island League. In 2017 the Shikoku Island Read More …
While this video clip isn’t about an “independent” league baseball tryout camp, it actually shows a human-interest story about a pitcher who attended a tryout camp in 1995 for the MLB strike spring training hopefuls. Of interest is the passion, attempt to make a comeback and how tryouts are run – in particular during the Read More …
The Liberation League was a last-minute makeshift independent pro baseball league which operated in 2020. It played in Indiana, and had its origins because one of the teams (the Dogecoin) was supposed to play in the Pacific Association in 2020 – but that league suspended the season due to California’s COVID regulations. Here is some Read More …
The Pecos League, due to COVID concerns, played all of its games in one central location in 2020 – the league’s training facility at Coastal Baseball Park in South Houston, Texas. The league’s first game was the actual first professional baseball game played in all of 2020 (before any other independent league and MLB games). Read More …
Get a good glimpse of life before/during an actual independent pro baseball game when you watch Mush (from Barstool Sports) suit up for a game with the New Jersey Jackals.
A recent video came out from a player who was with the Gary RailCats in 2017. This video shows life on the road when an independent pro baseball team (in this case, in the American Association) travels the long road from Indiana to the Dallas Fort Worth Texas area. In this instance the RailCats went Read More …
This video shows life behind the scenes plus some game footage from one of the last-minute “makeshift” independent professional baseball leagues which played in 2020. This league featured 4 teams in Washington, Pennsylvania and played most of the season until COVID protocols by the State required the team to suspend the remainder of the season.
The United Shore Professional Baseball League (USPBL) operates 4 teams out of just 1 stadium in Utica, Michigan. It is a different business model than the traditional independent minor league professional baseball leagues in that the league has reduced expenses which plague most independent team owners: hotels and buses and per diem meal money. The Read More …
The Wichita Wingnuts were a longtime American Association team, but due to the City of Wichita wanting to build a stadium for AAA baseball the independent team decided to cease operations. It is unknown how long the team’s social media and YouTube channels will still stay up, but for now you can see the quality Read More …
The Texas AirHogs play in the American Association (formerly known as the Grand Prairie AirHogs). In 2018 the team entered an agreement with the Chinese government to have many of the Chinese national team players play for the AirHogs in order to get exposure in America. If you were to have played in the AA Read More …
The Lincoln Saltdogs are a longstanding team which has played in the American Association for years. The team’s YouTube channel has highlights from many of last year’s games, so if you plan to one day play for an AA team then here is the caliber of play you must bring (or, ideally, exceed) in order Read More …