10U Pirates Spring Tryouts

December 3 & 5

6-8 pm

James Island Rec Center

Players are expected to attend both try out days and must preregister at the link below.

Players cannot turn 11 before May 1, 2025 - USSSA Age Calculator for 2024-2025 season.

Thank You Fall 10U Pirate Team Sponsors:

Devine Logistics, BW Mitchum Trucking,

& Coldwell Banker Commercial Atlantic

Team Baseball

Compete - Grow - Repeat!

Competition is opportunity for development - it is where you reap the benefits of your hard work, where you realize your goals, where you grow and learn from defeat not just wins, where you push your limits and learn about yourself, where you set new goals and raise the standard, it is where focus + hustle = fun!

Pirate Baseball involves practicing & scrimmaging two to three times per week and playing in games on the weekends throughout one or more seasons in a year - 8 tournaments in the Spring Season and 6 during Fall Ball.

The majority of tournaments are within an 1 hour drive of James Island - Walterboro, Summerville, North Charleston, Mt. Pleasant. When we do travel 'Out of Town', it will rarely require anything further than Columbia, Savannah, or Myrtle Beach. Detailed schedules below, locations TBD & dates are subject to change.

TENTATIVE SPRING SCHEDULE

2/2 start practice 3x/week

2/20 Scrimmage

2/27 Scrimmage

3/8 Tournament 1

3/22 Tournament 2

4/5 Tournament 3

4/19 Tournament 4

5/3 Tournament 5

5/17 Tournament 6

5/31 Tournament 7

6/7 Tournament 8

6/14 Make Up Date

How Pirate Baseball Works

Two Seasons

Fall - August to November

Spring - February to June

Pirate Players will have a set schedule for all practices, games, and events where they are required to attend

and will be unable to play on rec., little league, or other travel rosters once committed to a Pirate team for a season.

What’s Included

Fall

6x tournament fees

field rental & equipment

24x 2 hour practices (+ clinics & scrimmages)

Spring

8x tournament fees

field rental & equipment

38x 2+ hour practices (+ clinics & scrimmages)

Team Fees

Team fees are estimates only - we are currently seeking sponsorships to help reduce the cost per player.

We will provide a finalized & transparent budget to parents once your player is selected.

Fall = $525

Spring = $675

UNIFORMS ARE NOT INCLUDED IN TEAM FEES

Uniform set fees will be due upon when you join the roster. Price TBD; current estimate is less than $350 per player.

We will use/wear the same uniforms for Fall and Spring Ball Teams - you only need to purchase one uniform set per baseball year, August to July. (Uniforms reset in fall.)

What’s Included in Uniform Sets

  • 2 Hats

  • 3 Jerseys

  • 2 Pants

  • 2 Belt

  • 2 Socks

What’s NOT Included with Uniform Set

  • Cleats

  • Fielding Glove(s)

  • USSSA Bat(s)

  • Batting Helmet

    Each player is required to have their own helmet.

Travel Expenses NOT Included

Each player will be responsible for all of their own Travel Expenses for all tournaments.

We will reserve room blocks through Marriot hotels to provide best rate options.

Tournament Play - Policies - Sponsors

Pirate Travel Ball involves practicing & scrimmaging two to three times per week and playing in games on the weekends throughout one or more seasons in a year - Spring/Summer & Fall Ball. The majority of tournaments will be within an 1 hour drive of Charleston, SC - such as Walterboro, Summerville, North Charleston, Mt. Pleasant. When we do travel 'Out of Town', it will rarely require anything further than Columbia, Savannah, or Myrtle Beach.

Excluding scrimmages and the occasional Friday night, or 3-day weekend, game, virtually all travel baseball games are played in a tournament format and on weekends. Pirate Baseball will play 8 tournaments in the Spring/Summer Season and 6 during Fall Ball - locations TBD & dates are subject to change.

We will mostly play USSSA Tournaments in 2024 with the exception of any Shipyard tournament, they do their own thing. You can learn all you need to know about “Travel Ball”, tournaments, and the many organizations online- so, here’s what it means for Pirate Baseball.

There is no singular governing organization in travel baseball. Rather, there are several organizations and facilities that host tournaments with varying criteria. Some of the dominating travel baseball organizations include Triple Crown Sports, Perfect Game, Untied States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA), and Amateur Athletic Union (AAU).

No ‘Guest’ Players

Back Up Player Policy

We don’t believe kids who work hard each week at practice with their team should be replaced by guest players for the sake of a competitive advantage and chalking up Ws- hence, No Guest Player Policy

However, within reason, we will maintain a select list of ‘Back Up’ players to ensure we can always show up when we are scheduled to compete in tournaments.

Back Up players will be used when roster players are unavailable due to health reasons or family emergencies - the only two reasons a player should ever miss a scheduled tournament game.

Walk Up Songs & Music

Policy = Requires a consistent music coordinator volunteer per roster.

We’re cool with kids having appropriate 20 second walk up songs and music at warm ups and in between innings at an appropriate decibel level… that’s it.

Have Fun!

Dugouts are All Business

Policy = NO PARENTS. Focus. Hustle. Have Fun.

Players are required to focus on the job at hand, maintain a clean and organized work environment, and take pride in their professional appearance at all times -look good, feel good, play good- while representing JIBC values and Pirate codes of conduct.

Travel Sponsors

No Fundraising Policy

We elect to organize and fund our own players development - we pay for our kids to play baseball - we do not ask players to fundraise.

We do accept and appreciate sponsors who can help us offset expenses for the team and reduce the cost per player.

Whenever sponsored, we will use available funds to pay a portion of tournament fees and practice field rentals.

Our Travel Ball Goal is to teach ‘real’ baseball so our players are ready to play 90-foot baseball when the time comes - not take advantage of developing children’s shortcomings to score runs and win “$5 Rings” on 45’ bases- we will always take the high road and keep things in perspective when competing. Our intention is to develop players in the long-term, but we also want to compete every time we cross the line.

We want your kids to win when they’ve earned it, but most importantly we want them to play good baseball while learning healthy competitiveness and sportsmanship as part of their long-term development. But never forget, our coaches are competitors who are emotionally invested in your children’s well-being, and LOVE the game of baseball… so we may get fired up here and there - but we promise to keep it professional, positive, and productive for the players at all times when training and competing.

Pirate Baseball Teams will have a Manager, a Bench Coach, and a maximum of 1-2 Assistant Coaches. Please review our coaching page to learn more about our staff requirements, credentials, and organizational structure. Be sure you check out our Development page as well to best understand our approach to coaching players, including Travel Ball, and how everything we do will align with USA Baseball’s Long-Term Athletic Development Model and JIBC’s Approach, Philosophies, and 3 Rules.

JIBC is a BASE certified organization with Minor Athlete Abuse Prevention Policies and protections in place to help keep kids safe. Our Coaches go through back ground checks, and sign codes of conducts with USA Baseball.

Everyone- Coaches, Players, Legal Guardians - must agree to and sign the JIBC Codes of Conduct and Pirate Team Contract in order to be a part of Pirate Baseball.