2025 Skills Assessment & Tryouts

It's skills assessment time for 2025!

Skills Assessment Overview

Location: Field #2 at HTLL

Date: Feb. 8

Timeline for Feb. 8 - All ages shown are based on player's age on August 31, 2025 - this is their "League Age".
9:30 am - Minor A League Age 7-8-9 (including Minor B League Age 9)
10:30 am - League Age 10
11:15 am - League Age 11
12:00 pm - League Age 12 & Any returning Majors

Parents are welcome to watch silently behind the bleachers, but must not interact with their child during their group.  Please respect the process and stay behind any yellow caution tape.

What is the Skills Assessment?

The skills assessment is designed to help HTLL establish the Minor A and Majors teams for the season.  Assessments also keep each kid progressing in their baseball development, rather than being held back unnecessarily.

Who must participate?

All players registered for Minor A and Majors must participate in the skills assessment, plus 9 yr olds registered for Minor B.

• League Age 7-8 Minor A
• League Age 9 Minor A & Minor B
• League Age 10 Minor A & Majors
• League Age 11 Minor A & Majors
• League Age 12 Majors

Skills Assessment Activities

Skills assessments will be fun! Players will participate in a series of baseball activities:

• Catching outfield fly balls (2 attempts)
• Fielding ground balls (2 attempts)
• Batting (4 swings off a pitching machine)
• Base running (sprint from home to 2nd base)
• Pitching (2 pitches thrown)

It's a very positive and supportive environment, not a "test". Don't feel you need to overly "prepare" your player.

What happens next? Player selection and draft information

After the skills assessments are complete, the league will hold a draft with the managers of Majors and Minor A to build the teams.

All new 12 yr old players and returning Majors players will be drafted onto a Majors team.

For all other players, the division signup is the starting point for where they will be placed. For example, it is possible that a high-performing Minor A signup could be drafted by a Majors manager. It's also possible that a new 10-11 yr old Majors candidate is not chosen for Majors and is placed in Minor A for further development.

Returning Minor A players will be placed on a Minor A team at minimum. New Minor A candidates (7-8-9 yr olds) will be returned to Minor B if not drafted by a Minor A manager. 9 yr old Minor B signups could be placed onto a Minor A team if drafted.