Round one, pick by pick
The RBL publishes its draft results in full, which almost no adult league does. In AAA, round one: the Diamondbacks took Mason Smith and the Plates took Tom Standera. In AA, round one ran five picks -- the Crows took John Woods, the Cardinals Chris Santoro, the Rangers Patrick Finnerty, the Brewers Roberto Quinones-Flores and the Rockies Salvatore Meli -- with the Crows and Brewers picking again in round two and the Crows taking Hector Ortiz-Espinosa in round three. In A, the Knights, Rays, Beau Brummels and Trash Pandas each took a player in round one, three of them picked again in round two, and the Knights took Sam Howell in the third.
That gives eleven clubs across the three leagues, and the Crows and Knights the deepest drafts in theirs.
The Beau Brummels are named for a Rochester baseball club of the 1860s, which is a piece of local history most cities have forgotten.
Publishing a draft board is exactly the right instinct and it belongs somewhere the picks accumulate. A High Cheese team page belongs to the club rather than the season, so a player drafted in 2026 has a page that still shows it in 2036.
Rochester Baseball League in detail
- Three leagues, one of them built specifically for men who never played college ball.
- Three different calendars — AAA from mid-May, AA from late April, each with weeknights.
- Playoffs are seeded across three leagues; no table is published.
- No result is published.
- No statistics are published.
- Four officers with addresses on the league's own domain.
- A free agent form for new players, feeding a published draft.
- No ballpark is named.
- Seven innings and doubleheaders in AAA, nine innings and singles in AA, and a twenty-year college bar in A.
- The front page carries the draft results, and a marketing director was appointed in 2025.
- No gallery is published.
- Four backers, two of them bat makers — including one that makes Rochester maple.
- Best-of-three series in AAA, single elimination in AA.
- Inducted into the NABA Hall of Fame in 2006, with a commissioner in post since 2010.
- Every officer named with the year they took the role, and a board of six chosen in 2025.
- Which league am I in — and the answer depends on when you last played college ball.
- An RBL Rule Book is published from the front page.
- AA from late April, AAA from mid-May, playoffs in August and September.
- Nothing is for sale by the league.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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