by SouthbayFP » Mon Nov 25, 2019 9:09 am
This season was full of excitement. Here is a short recap. The Power 3 won most of the tournaments, Grapettes 3, Athletics Mercado 2, AASA Macias 2. Firecrackers, Blackjacks, and LTG each won 1.
And now it’s November and Fall softball is over for a few weeks. Most teams have held their spring tryouts and are ready for the new year to roll around. What will 2020 bring us? Did the Power 3 load up? Universal 07 is back. We will also see all the 06 players move up where they belong. This will affect a few teams that were 06 heavy this fall.
My final rankings of the Fall are:
1. Athletics Mercado- won the 2 biggest tournaments of the season. A solid well rounded team with bats.
2. AASA Macias- still “the team to watch”, except in the final tournament. They have a solid core.
3. Grapettes Kapp- Injuries seemed to plague them late in the season. They lost at least 2 studs for the season. They will reload though.
4. Yard Sharks- a surprise ranking since I never had them in the top 10, but they knocked off Macias twice this season and took AM into ITB in their final game. Even though they didn’t win a PGF tournament this fall, they had the fire power to do so. They had solid pitching, catching and middle defense.
5. Cal Nuggets- They were lead by a solid 1-2 punch in their pitchers. Their new pitcher that joined them this fall was lights out against AM. If they reload with a few bats, I expect them to move up in the rankings in 2020.
6. Firecrackers North- They won a tournament early and struggled to get back to form this season. They have a solid pitching combo. They won a few other tournaments with the “other guys”. Expect them to be solid in the Spring.
7. Lady Bandits- This is a tough team that is mostly a local organization team. They all mostly go to the same school. They are a bit top heavy with 06 players though, so what should we expect in the spring? Will the team reload on 07 players? Or move up to 14’s as a team?
8. Firecrackers Galaviz- They are a speedy team with a lot of heart. Good pitching and good coaches.
9. AASA Bryson- A good upcoming team that wasn’t on my radar early. They have a solid 1 pitcher that keeps them in games. They gave both AASA Macias and Athletics Mercado a hard game.
10. Salinas Storm- A young group with a lot of fight in them.