Three chances, then the draft
The league ran three tryouts for its 2026 season -- two in the second half of March and a final one on 4 April -- at nine in the morning for the 45+ and ten for the 18+ and 30+.
Registration opens in mid-March, and must be completed before a player is allowed to try out. The draft follows immediately after the final tryout.
Publishing three tryout dates rather than one is the single most player-friendly scheduling decision in this directory: a man who works one Saturday still has two more.
A season entered once on a High Cheese league page dates every one of those into each player's own calendar -- the registration window, all three tryouts and the draft.
Santa Barbara MABL in detail
- Want to play REAL adult baseball? Three divisions, fourteen clubs, drafted every spring.
- Three schedules, one for each division.
- Standings that decide the following spring's draft order.
- Results feed the standings and, a year later, the draft order.
- Fourteen clubs across three divisions, redrafted each spring.
- A batting stats page published beside the three schedules.
- Contact us for details — repeated at every decision point.
- Register first, then try out — and being drafted is not guaranteed.
- Goleta Valley South Little League, senior and junior fields.
- Three age divisions and a published draft procedure.
- A radio interview, a promo video, local TV coverage and a live stream from a field.
- A promo video, a live field stream and televised tryout coverage.
- Seven sponsors, each with a description, and one offering members 20% off.
- The draft order is published in advance, and it is settled on runs allowed.
- 2025 champions: Salty Dogs, Waves and Seals.
- Nobody is named.
- Am I guaranteed a place — answered, and the answer is no.
- Registration is an account rather than a form.
- A sponsor discount of 20% for members, with a code from the league.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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