Brentwood PONY

Draft Rules

2010 Brentwood Pony Draft Rules

BPBL Division Summary

	Shetland Minor	Shetland Major	Pinto Jr	Pinto	Must. 9	Must. 10	Bronco	Pony	Colt
Age on April 30	4-5	6	7	8	9	10	11-12	13-14	15-16
Basepath	50ft	50ft	50ft	50ft	60ft	60ft	70ft	80ft	90ft
Pitching Mound	38ft	38ft	38ft	38ft	44ft	44ft	48ft	54ft	60.5ft
Start of Season	Tee	Coach Pitch	Coach Pitch	Player Pitch + Coach Pitch on walk	Player Pitch
End of Season	Coach Pitch	Coach Pitch	Coach Pitch	Player Pitch + Coach Pitch on walk	Player Pitch
Teams Formed By	Director		Draft
Base Stealing	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Leadoffs	No	No	No	No	No	1st/2nd	Yes	Yes	Yes
Balks	No	No	No	No	No	Warn	Yes	Yes	Yes
Dropped 3rd Srike	N/A	N/A	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Breaking Pitches	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Season Begins	March								May

Brentwood PONY By-Laws

Here are the Brentwood PONY Official By-Laws

In House Rules

2010 Pony Baseball League Age Key

Here are the 2010 BPBL In-House Rules. There are important changes from last years rules:

New Rules for Shetland 5U and Shetland 6 Divisions

Catcher is no longer an infield position

If rules are not specifically in the above, then we go by the Pony National rules:
2009 National Pony Rules

If rules are not specifically in the Pony National rules we go by Major League Baseball rules:
Major League Baseball Rules

2009 Coaching Manuals

Below are the 2009 Coaching Manuals

Mustang Bronco Pony Divisions

Pinto Shetland Divisions

Participation in other baseball organizations

BPBL in-house and Blast players are not permitted to participate in games with any other baseball organizations until in-house play is complete (see bylaws Article XI, Section 2 in the “Rules” section of the web site). Blast and In-house players will be held to this rule between the date of the in-house player draft or placement of player on a BPBL team (whichever is later) and the completion of any Tournament of Champions games or any all-star participation by the player. The latter includes any BPBL in-house all-star games and all PONY, Inc World Series participation. If players are found to be participating in games with other baseball organizations the player will be subject to disciplinary action. Participation includes being listed in any game lineup card as active for the game or participating on the field. The BPBL Board of Directors has outlined the following disciplinary measures if in-house or Blast players are found to be participating in games for outside organizations:

First offense: Written warning to player

Second offense: Players suspension from BPBL for the remainder of the season

Scorekeeping

BPBL Scorekeeping Clinic Slide Presentation

2008 Scorecard

Game Day Lineup

Practice Plan (Sample)

Umpires

BPBL is umpired by different groups at different levels.

Shetland and Pinto Jr. - Games are umpired by a coach or parent. There are no called strikes in these divisions, the pitches are only counted by the umpire to ensure the batter does not exceed the allowed number of pitches/swings during their at bat. The umpire also calls the plays on runners and records outs.

Pinto and Mustang 9 - Games are umpired by a single paid umpire. Typically these umpires are area high school baseball players who have a fundamental understanding of the game of baseball. They call balls and strikes and umpire from behind home plate.

Mustang 10, Bronco, and Pony - Games are umpired by a single paid association umpire. These umpires are trained and certified.

If you are interested in becoming an umpire for BPBL, please email umpires@brentwoodpony.org .