Diamond Academy Evaluation Guidelines

- 5 stations will be put together.  They are Infield/Outfield, Pitching, Catching, Hitting, Speed/Agility
- each league will supply volunteers at each station
- Diamond Academy provides evaluators.  All of our evaluators have played a high level of baseball and have been coaching at various levels for more than 30 combined years.
- scoring is a 5 point scale (1-5), in half point increments.  We do not believe that anyone is a 0.
- Because pitching is such a large part of youth baseball, pitching score will be doubled.  This will be explained in more detail.
- catching station is mandatory for everyone except for 7/8 year olds
- catchers will wear only a mask and glove, probably their own (easier to catch tennis balls)
- catchers will be on rubber mats and as mentioned, we will use tennis balls
- hitting eval will consist of soft toss...not from the side but with L screen about 5 feet from batter
- infield/outfield station will be combined
- speed station will consist of basically a home to first time.  Scoring will be to just write down the kids time and we will come up with the scale after evals based on all times.
- a "no show" for evals means the following:
Average scoring. For example, if the player is 9 years old, we take the average score for all 9 year olds and assign that score.

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- Steve Frusolone - Founder