AboutTom O`Leary Expertise I am am best suited to answer questions regarding minor league baseball prospects.
Experience Originally, i started doing this because i became engrossed researching prospects for a fantasy league. Back then all i really wanted to do was answer questions about baseball prospects.
Funny how time flies but twelve years later i have been asked questions regarding the negro leagues, what minor leaguers get paid, why players don't rub their injury when they get hurt, and how players can tryout for the minor leagues to name only a few. i was recently in correspondence with a father of a marine who lost several fingers while in Iraq; he was later drafted by the padres and is playing in their minor league system. additionally, i get a lot of questions from guys asking me if i think they can be successful at these tryouts or if they should tryout at all.
I do my best to answer every one's question without overstepping my bounds of knowledge. *sometimes i have to tell people that i just can't answer their question.* And sometimes i have to tell people that they just aren't good enough to be a professional ball player.*
most recently i have received two negative feedbacks from people who didn't like my response. one 30 year old guy who hadn't played since he was a teenager asked me if he really had a shot at making the tryouts. realistically, i said no. i guess he didn't appreciate my bluntness but what would you have wanted me to say?
i am not really an 'expert' in anything. i just answer people's inquires, give some conservative advise or tell them 'i don't know.' after twelve years i have realized that i do fulfill most most questioners satisfactorily which keeps me doing this.
Question hi,
I am 22 and played ball pretty much my whole life, my schools team never
was very good so I don't have any major accomplishments. I didn't go to
college, but I have been playing softball 3 and 4 times a week yr round, I
have a very powerful swing and can read the strike zone very well. I would
like to start working out again and hitting the cages regularly. I want to tryout
next year, knowing that my chances are slim, even then. Honestly what kind
of chances would someone like myself have of even being noticed?
Answer brandon,
first off, softball is very differrent than baseball. and i'm speaking strickly about your swing. there are many other facets of the game that make softball entirely different from baseball.
would you get noticed? it depends on how good you are. good luck.
