SHOWCASES

   Players are selected to area showcases through invitation, nomination, or individual registration.  Players participating in a Paramount Scouting Bureau event must be entering their freshman, sophomore, junior or senior year in high school. Recent high school graduate baseball and softball players may also participate in a showcase for a chance to be seen by college coaches.

   Recent college graduate baseball players may participate in a showcase for a chance to be seen by professional baseball scouts.  The Paramount Scouting Bureau evaluates baseball players and promotes qualified players to teams from all over the world, including Major League Baseball organizations, independent and foreign leagues.  Teams contact the Paramount Scouting Bureau on a regular basis looking for players to fill voids caused by injury, release, or call-ups.

   Paramount Scouting Bureau scouts base their player evaluations on a college scale as explained under the Players tab on this web site. The scouts rating the players are experienced in evaluating talent. Many have professional playing experience and have scouted players at the professional or collegiate level.

   Scouts who have worked past events include former professional baseball players and major league coaches, including Grant Jackson, John Candelaria, Rudy Law, Jim Rooker, and Lenny Randle.  Several professional scouts, such as Dave Rettig (Pittsburgh), Darold Brown (Arizona), Dennis Vance (Colorado), along with college baseball and softball coaches evaluate at our events.  We do not hire local college or high school coaches as evaluators on a one-time basis. Many of our scouts evaluate several showcases, which helps to create consistency when comparing players from across the country.

   Professional scouts provide participants with an unbiased evaluation for running speed, arm strength, pitching and fielding. Showcases that do not precede a tournament also include hitting.  National Scouting Report, America's premier scouting services for college coaches and high school athletes since launching the industry in 1980, will promote the showcases and send the results from each showcase to every college coach in the country.

New for 2010:  3-in-1 Showcases

     Beginning in 2010, some Paramount Scouting Bureau events will be 3-in-1 Showcases.  The events are more than just a showcase.  These events include evaluation, instruction and promotion.  Limited to 40 athletes per event, you receive a thorough evaluation of all aspects of your game, including Baseball/Softball Fit, with a written evaluation provided before you leave.  Scouts will provide instruction and suggest training methods to improve your game while evaluating your running, pitching, fielding and hitting. 

These events are noted in the showcase listings.

Paramount Scouting National Softball Showcase

     The Paramount Scouting Bureau along with the Fastpitch Showdowns will hold the Fastpitch Showdowns Fall National Showcase and Tournament.  Paramount Scouting will invite the top performers from all of the 2010 showcases to participate in this event.  The girls invited to this event will perform in the showcase, then Paramount Scouting will form two teams that will play in the tournament.  The showcase is open to all girls, but the girls invited by Paramount Scouting will participate free of charge in the showcase and tournament.  Check back for further information on this event.