2024 Farm American League (6U as of April 30, 2024)
Age: Birthdate range is 5/1/17 to 4/30/18
Price: $155
Description: A Reduced Injury Factor (RIF) baseball will be used. It is the same size as a regulation baseball, but it is softer. Batters will receive 6 pitches from the coach. If they don't hit the ball, then they will have the opportunity to hit the ball with soft toss. The entire season is coach pitch. Games are 5 innings in length with a time limit of one and half hours.
Team Assignments: Players will be placed on teams without a formal player evaluation. The Commissioner will attempt to balance teams based on the age of the players and the known skill level of the players.
Team Announcements: You will receive notification of your child’s team placement on or before March 29th.
Practices: Practices will begin on or after April 1. Teams will be scheduled to practice once or twice each week from April 2 through Baseball Opening Day.
Practice Times: Practices will be scheduled as early as 5:30 pm Monday through Friday and on Saturday as early as 9am.
Baseball Opening Day has not been officially scheduled yet but likely will be April 20th. All teams will play at least one game and pictures will be taken.
Season Length (games): Baseball Opening Day through June 15th.
Typical Game Schedule: 12 scheduled games per team. We will make every effort to make sure that every team plays a minimum of 10 games (weather permitting).
Games Per Week: Typically two games per week. Games will be scheduled as early as 5:30 pm Monday through Friday and on Saturday as early as 9am.
Practice and Game Locations: Mars VFW and others TBD
Player Requests: If two players want to play with each other, both must submit the same request. Although we cannot guarantee any placement request, we will try to honor placement requests between 2 players so long as both request to play together and we can still maintain a proportional balance of abilities on 6U teams. No requests to play for a certain coach are permitted.
Equipment Provided/Equipment Needed: The league provides hats, jerseys and practice/game balls. Players will want to purchase gray baseball pants, glove, batting helmet, USA Baseball approved bat, and cleats. Players may want to purchase a bat bag.
Farm National 7U League (7U as of April 30, 2024)
Age: Birthdate range is 5/1/16 to 4/30/17
Price: $155
Description: We use a standard little league baseball in the 7U league that is harder than the Reduced Injury Factor ball used in the 6U league. Batters will receive 7 pitches from the coach. If they don't hit the ball or have 3 swinging strikes, the batter is out. The entire season is coach pitch. Games are 6 innings in length with a two hour time limit.
Team Assignments: Players will be placed on teams without a formal player evaluation. The Commissioner will attempt to balance teams based on the age of the players and the known skill level of the players.
Team Announcements: You will receive notification of your child’s team placement on or before March 29th.
Practices: Practices will begin on or after April 1. Teams will be scheduled to practice once or twice each week from April 1 through Baseball Opening Day.
Practice Times: Practices will be scheduled as early as 5:30 pm Monday through Friday and on Saturday as early as 9am.
Baseball Opening Day has not been officially scheduled yet but likely will be April 20th. All teams will play at least one game and pictures will be taken.
Season Length (games): Baseball Opening Day through June 15th.
Typical Game Schedule: 12 scheduled games per team. We will make every effort to make sure that every team plays a minimum of 10 games (weather permitting).
Games Per Week: Typically two games per week starting as early as 5:30pm (Mon thru Friday) and 9am on Saturday.
Practice and Game Locations: Adams Township Park and Mars School fields
Player Requests: If two players want to play with each other, both must submit the same request. We cannot guarantee any placement request; we will try to honor placement requests between 2 players so long as both request to play together and we can still maintain a proportional balance of abilities on teams. No requests to play for a certain coach are permitted.
Equipment Provided/Equipment Needed: The league provides hats, jerseys and practice/game balls. Players will want to purchase gray baseball pants, glove, batting helmet, USA Baseball approved bat, and cleats. Players may want to purchase a bat bag.
The Farm National 8U League (8U as of April 30, 2024)
Age: Birthdate range is 5/1/15 to 4/30/16
Price: $155
Description: We use a standard little league baseball in the Farm 8 league. On Opening Day, the games will be 6 innings of coach pitch. For every other game during the season, the games will be 4 innings of coach pitch and 2 innings of kid pitch. During the coach pitch portion of the game, batters will receive 7 pitches from the coach. If they don't hit the ball or have 3 swinging strikes, the batter is out. During the kid pitch portion of the game, the batters are out after three strikes but a coach will finish pitching an at bat after four balls. Games are 6 innings in length with a two hour time limit.
Team Assignments: Players will be placed on teams after a formal player evaluation at No Offseason Baseball. All registered players are requested to attend. At an in person meeting with the Commissioner and Head Coach of each team, teams will be balanced based on the evaluated skill level of the players.
Team Announcements: We will likely conduct a player evaluation in advance of setting teams. You will receive notification of your child’s team placement on or before March 29th.
Practices: Practices will begin on or after April 1. Teams will be scheduled to practice once or twice each week through Baseball Opening Day.
Practice Times: Practices will be scheduled as early as 5:30pm on Monday through Friday and on Saturday as early as 9am.
Baseball Opening Day has not been officially scheduled yet but likely will be April 20th. All teams will play at least one game and pictures will be taken.
Season Length (games): Baseball Opening Day through June 15th.
Typical Game Schedule: 12 scheduled games per team. We will make every effort to make sure that every team plays a minimum of 10 games (weather permitting).
Games Per Week: Typically two games per week (including the weekends) as early as 5:30pm (M-F) and 9am on Saturday.
Practice and Game Locations: Adams Township Park and Mars School fields
Requests: Teams will be established after a player evaluation, so player requests are not used at 8U. Also, No requests to play for a certain coach are permitted.
Equipment Provided/Equipment Needed: The league provides hats, jerseys and practice/game balls. Players will also need to purchase a bat, helmet, gray baseball pants and cleats and may want to purchase a bat bag.