Register before you show up
The league is unusually strict and unusually honest about its entry process.
It is required that you first create an account and register for the season before you will be allowed to try out. If you show up for tryouts and have not registered, you will be required to register first.
And then the part almost nobody writes down: tryouts, creating an account and registering do not guarantee participation. Teams evaluate your skills during tryouts and draft players based on their needs. If you are not drafted you will be placed on the free agents list, where players may be contacted during the season if a team needs players -- and otherwise you are welcome to try out again the following season.
That is a league telling a man he might not get on, in advance, in plain language.
Anyone who misses the tryouts is told to make contact and the league will either find him a team or add him to the wait list.
A High Cheese join page takes the registration, feeds the tryout list and keeps the undrafted men in a pool managers can actually see mid-season -- which is the difference between a free agent list and a filing cabinet.
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.
- 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.
- Three tryout dates in March and early April, with registration opening mid-March.
- A sponsor discount of 20% for members, with a code from the league.
- No crew or assignor is named.
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