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 I started playing baseball when I was about 4 years old. After High school I was getting ready to play for a division 2 college and then transfer when something came up that prevented me from going. Not a health issue but a family issue. Anyways, I have stayed in great shape and I can't stop thinking about what might have been. I am now 25 years old and I want to tryout for Major Leauge Baseball. I am aware that being 25 is not ideal to be starting over but I am very confident in my abilities. Is there an age limit to tryout? I know being 25 makes me less valuable then if I were 20, but if I have the talent to play and prove that do you thnk I will get a shot?
Answer mark,
no, there is no age limit for trying out.
you've said all the right things. the odds aren't in your favor. because of your age, you have less potential and therefore less value.
if you are good enough you will get a shot. there are far too many many people who can much way too much off you you not to give you a shot if you are good enough.
