Michael Ciminiello

Each year, Blue Chip Prospects hosts a bevy of showcases on Long Island which features some of the top uncommitted players across this great region. They play in front of dozens of college coaches, hoping to garner interest from them and continue their baseball careers after high school. Today, 63 players showed up at Mitchel Field with 20 colleges represented. Some of these schools were St. John’s, Fordham, University at Albany, Monmouth, LIU, Stony Brook, Hofstra, Sacred Heart, Farleigh-Dickinson, Manhattan, Iona, NJIT, Farfield, Adelphi, NYIT, Molloy, Pace, St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Joseph’s-Brooklyn and Stevenson. From my perspective, these events are great because I have the opportunity to see such a high volume of elite players all in one location. Sometimes there’s h...