Daily Log, Day 6 -- LVBA gets another player a shot at professional baseball...

Daily Log:

Day 6

LVBA has had more or less what can be described as an amateur adult-league "affiliate team" in 2008 and 2009 and that team has been the Limeport Bulls of the Tri-County League...

Many top-flyte players in college or just out of college in the area have played for the Bulls the past 2 seasons, hoping to land a spot in professional baseball somewhere thanks in part to the dozens of Independent League coaching contacts that Jeff Bittiger and Dylan Dando of LVBA have made over the years...

So today, at LVBA, Oakland A's scout Jeff Bittiger mentioned that he was looking for a slick-fielding shortstop who can throw about 90 mph off the mound and Los Angeles Dodgers scout and former manager of the Limeport Bulls, Dylan Dando mentioned that Chris Tonte fits that bill...

Tonte, who played at Pitt, has dazzled the Tri-County League and Limeport Stadium crowds with some of the most incredible defensive plays imaginable the past two summers...Last summer, Bulls' manager Steve Smull was looking for a closer and put Tonte (who has a cannon at SS) on the mound, and Tonte was throwing bullets...

So today, another Tri-County League player gets a shot at Pro baseball thanks in part to the Limeport Bulls affiliation with LVBA the past 2 years, as Tonte will sign a contract to go to spring training in North Dakota with the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks of the Northern League, one of the best Independent Leagues in the country...

There is no guarantee that Tonte will even make the squad, as the level of baseball in the Northern League has been compared to AA baseball in affiliated leagues...

But the bottom line is, Tonte will get a chance to play professional baseball because of the professional contacts that LVBA has all over the country...

Are there any high school coaches or even college coaches in the Lehigh Valley who can make one phone call and get a player a shot to play professional baseball overnight?...

The answer is, "No"...

Are there any travels teams in the Lehigh Valley area who has coaches who are professional scouts with the professional contacts that Bittiger and Dando have?...

The answer is "No"...

Is your kid interested in having a shot to play baseball at a college that is the best fit for him?...

Is your college-age kid good enough to have a shot at playing professional baseball?...

You may want to play at LVBA and find out...