The San Gabriel Valley Arsenal would like to thank all of our sponsors and supporters for the upcoming summer season. We would like to thank Perfect Game, Mizuno, Easton, Team One, Baseball Factory and Under Armour.  We ask that players and families in our program to support these franchises.

 We would like to thank Easton on their generous donation of the top end baseball pants to our program.  We would also like to thank Under Armour for their generous donation to our 2010 team by naming them a UA franchise team.  Under Armour provided spikes, pants and two game tops as a sponsorship for the team.

PERFECT GAME

The organization that defined an industry is still baseball’s foremost scouting report service. Whether it's showcases, tournaments, online video, national rankings, player profiles, scouting reports, college and professional baseball opportunities, or the desire to compete with and against the best, top teams, players and their families choose Perfect Game USA for exposure, insight, and professionalism to propel them through their baseball career. And where talent goes, professional scouts and top college recruiters follow which is why the best in baseball choose Perfect Game USA.  

Baseball Factory is a proud sponsor of the SGV Arsenal.  Baseball Factory provides baseball players nationwide with the very best instruction, tournament competition, and college planning and guidance. From day one, Baseball Factory has understood the uncertainty of being a high school player heading to college.  www.baseballfactory.com

Team One Baseball is a proud sponsor of the SGV Arsenal.  Team One Baseball provides exposure opportunities for the nation’s top high school players to come together and play in front of large amounts of scouts and college recruiters through the company’s showcases and tournaments. 

Glomar Bats -Call Ramssey at 909-648-9441  to order bats

The SGV Arsenal will be holding tryouts for the 2010 summer season on Sundays January 24th and 31st. Tryouts will be for each grade level team.  We have teams for the class of 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2010.   Selected players are placed on the teams by grade not by age.  Tryouts will be held at Maverick field in West Covina.  Cost of try outs is $20.00 which covers both tryout dates.  Please fill out the player profile handout and email to mike@sgvbaseball.com and please bring a hard copy to tryouts.  Please feel free to call or email with any questions.  All returning SGV Arsenal 2013 players are required to tryout.  

We also hold open workouts to any player looking to get some extra work.  Workouts are held at Maverick field  on Wednesday nights from 6:30-8:30.  We understand some might be coming from a distance so please arrive anytime you can and get right into the workout.  There is no cost for the workouts. 

Tryouts:

January 24th @ Maverick Field

Player check in: 12:30.  

January 31st @ Maverick Field

Player check in 8:30

OPEN  WORKOUTS EVERY WEDNESDAY 6:30 TO 8:30 

The SGV Arsenal 2012 and 2013 team will be participating in the Glendora Toys for Tots tournament. The event will take place at Henderson Field at Goddard school in Glendora.  Each player is required to bring an unwrapped toy.  Admission to the tournament is nonperishble food item.  Please be very supportive of this event and eat at the snack bar.

2009 GLENDORA TOYS-FOR-TOTS TOURNAMENT 

   POOL  A               POOL  B    

Glendora W.B.         SGV ‘12 

SGV ’13             Diamond Dawgs 

ISC Power        SoCal Bombers Red 

 Thursday 12/17 

5 pm      Glendora v ISC Power 

7:30       SGV’12 v D. Dawgs 

 Friday 12/18 

5 pm      Bombers v D.Dawgs 

7:30       Glendora v SGV ‘13 

 Saturday 12/19 

Noon      SGV ’13 v ISC Power 

2:30       SGV ’12 v Bombers 

6 pm      Consolation Game  

 Sunday 12/20  

10 am      Consolation Game  

1 pm      Championship Game  

The SGV Arsenal will be hosting a Jaeger Sports Arm Strengthing program at Maverick Field in West Covina on December 30th at 3:00pm.  Alan Jaeger is a leader in arm strengthing and conditioning.  Each will players will receive a set of J-Bands and the full clinic. Each player will be taught the full J-Band and throwing routine.   The clinic will take about 2 hours.  We highly recommend players with the J-Bands please come out to refresh your knowledge on the bands.  

This clinic is open to all players.  This is not just a SGV Arsenal event.  We would like to invite all interested players to attend the clinic.  Please email to mike@sgvbaseball.com to confirm your attendance.

Location Maverick Field-West Covina

Cost: $45.00(includes bands) $10(no bands)

Date: December 30th

Time: 3:00 p.m.

The Fall/Winter season is moving along.  Just a recap and an update of upcoming events.  We have played at some great venues in Florida, Arizona and Southern California colleges. Listed below is a recap and upcoming events

 SoCal Colleges:

San Diego State (2011)

University of San Diego (2011 and 2012)

Cal State Fullerton (2011)

Pepperdine University (2011 and 2012)

Loyola Marymount University (2011 and 2013)

UC Irvine-January 2-3

WWBA World Championships-Jupitor, Florida

Arizona Junior Fall Classic

Sophomore Fall Classic

SoCal Winter League (2012 and 2013)

Cory Lidle Thanksgiving tournament (2010/2011 and 2012/2013) 

SGV Arsenal Scout Day-35 college and MLB scouts in attendance at Maverick Field. 

Upcoming events:

Glendora Toys for Tots Tournament-December 10-13(2013 and 2012)

UC Irvine-January 2-3  (2011) 

This is our second annual ranking of what we used to call"travel teams" in the United States. Of course, we now know that theyis so much more to baseball development than just teams that travel.These elite clubs in our next two days of articles are true CollegeDevelopment Programs or CDP's. Our research and information was basedon what is published on major baseball web sites as well as resultsgathered from the top tournament and showcase sites.

Butmostly, we ranked the teams by using the following criteria...1) Formerplayers that went on to college. 2) Present players that are verballycommitted. 3) Former players that were drafted. 4) Former playersplaying in MLB. 5) Former or present players that have been named to aNational Team or received national attention. 6) National Championshipswon.

So, based on that criteria, below is our top 5 CollegeDevelopment Programs. Actually there are 6. We have a tie for first.This stuff is hard folks. There's a lot to like about more than just 5teams.

#2 San Gabriel Valley Arsenal
TheArsenal was established in the summer of 2001 with players throughoutthe San Gabriel Valley. They had 24 players from the Class of 2008commit to college and 2 first round draft picks in Aaron Hicks andGerrit Cole. Cole made the nationalnews this year by opting out of playing for the Yankees in favor of aspot on the UCLA roster, where he is in the middle of fall workouts.Zach Collier was also a first round supplemental pick of the Phillies.Altogether, they had an impressive 10 players drafted...all but one inthe 26th round or better.

Jonathan Singleton was their loneAFLAC All American, but that's coming off a year in 2007 when they hadfour AFLAC All-Americans on their squad. This program knows the in andouts of baseball and there is not a College Development Program in thewest coast that doesn't have respect for the Arsenal. They play theright tourney's and get exposure for their players with regularity.Their fall schedule includes WWBA World Championships in Jupiter,Junior Fall Classic in Peoria, AZ. and the Cory Lidle ThanksgivingTournament. That's a great line-up that will greatly benefit theirplayers.

#1 NorCal Baseball-Tie
#1 ABD-Tie
#2 SGV Arsenal
#3 East Cobb Baseball
#4 Dallas Tigers
#5 Houston Heat
 
Best of the Rest:

New England Ruffnecks
All American Prospects
Richmond Braves
Houston Banditos
South Carolina Diamond Devils
Georgio Roadrunners

2011

Scott Heineman-Crespi/Oregon
Wallace Gonzalez-Bishop Amat/University of San Diego

 2010

Jerry McClanahan-Bishop Amat/UC Irvine

Andrew Thurman-Orange Lutheran /UC Irvine

Austin Walker-Crespi/UC Irvine

Dylan Covey-Maranatha/University of San Diego

Paul Paez-Bishop Amat/Univeristy of San Diego  

Arman Valenzuela-Northview /Loyola Marymount 

AJ Berglund-St. Francis /UC Santa Barbara 

Derek Goodwin Diamond Ranch /Sacramento State

Jeff Yamaguchi Lakewood/Long Beach State

Dillon Bryant Orange Lutheran/University Nevada Las Vegas 

Lonnie Kauppila Burbank/Stanford

Aaron Sanchez Barstow/University of Oregon 

Chris Hubbard LB Wilson/Brown University 

Michael Hubbard Crespi/Stony Brook University 

Jack Heidelman Claremont/UC San Diego

2009

Phillip Holinsworth-Chino Hills '09 UC Riverside

Brady Zuniga-Bishop Amat '09 UNLV

Ryan Arnold-Northview ‘09 UNLV

Pierce Bily-Orange Lutheran ‘09 UC irvine

Evan Brock-Ayala ‘09 UC Irvine

Mitch Merten-Servite ‘09 UC Irvine

Jeff Gelalich-Bonita ‘09  UCLA

Mark Garcia-Damien '09 UC Riverside

Tyler Heinemen-Winsward ‘09 UCLA

Jonathan Singleton-LB Millikan ‘09 Long Beach State(Phillies-signed)

Tommy Nance-LB Wilson ‘09 Long Beach State

David Rivera-Claremont '09 Campbell University(NC)

Eddie Magallon-Paramount ‘09 Long Beach State

Richie Pedroza-Northview ‘09 Fullerton

David Kessler-Claremont ‘09 Utah Valley State

James Huettner-Windward ‘09 UC San Diego

Ryan Dunn-Chino Hills ‘09 Cal Poly Pomona 

Erick Ruvalcaba-Northview ‘09 Cal Poly Pomona

Tim Brookes-San Dimas '09 Cal State San Marcos

Raymond Ortega- Damien ‘09 Mt. San Antonio College

Jaccob Muir-Barstow ‘09  Rio Hondo College 

Dylan Fitzgerald-Villa Park '09 Cypress College

Josh Evans-Chino Hills '09 Citrus College 

 2008

Carlos Lopez-Crespi '08 Fullerton
Chris Amezquita-Servite '08 UCLA
Gerrit Cole-Orange Lutheran '08 UCLA/NY Yankees
Ricky Oropesa-Etiwanda '08 USC/Boston Red Sox
Aaron Hicks-LB Wilson '08 USC/Minnesota Twins
Zach Wilson-LB Wilson '08 Arizona State University/Pittsburg Pirates
Ray Hanson-LB Wilson '08 Arizona State University
Jake Thompson-LB Wilson '08 Long Beach State**
Dimitri DeLaFuente-South Hills '08 Pepperdine
Anthony Gose-Bellflower '08 University of Arizona/Phildelphia Phillies
Kyle Higashioka-Edison '08 Cal Berkeley/NY Yankees
Jonathan Montoya-Chino Hills '08 Cal State Bakersfield
Jeremy Rodriguez-Crespi '08 Cal State Bakersfield
Shawn Smith-Saugus '08 Northridge/Tampa Ray Devil Rays
Kris Kauppila-Cresenta Valley '08 University of Portland
Travis Forbes-Crespi '08 Univesrity of San Diego
Nik Turley-Harvard/Westlake '08 Brigham Young University/New York Yankees
E.C. McSweeney-Crespi '08 UC Irvine
Chris Vopinek-Bellflower '08 Sacramento State
Garret Carpenter-Mayfair'08 Mesa State(Colorado)
Anthony Nunes-Gahr '08 Biola University
Freezy Smalls II-Barstow ‘08 Cal Poly Pomona
Tyler Buffington-South Hills '08 Mt. San Antonio College
Josh Brown-Ayala ‘08 Cerritos College

2007
Victor Sanchez-Gahr '07 University of San Diego/Chicago Cubs
Jason Dovel-La Mirada '07 Fullerton
Jake Johnson-La Mirada '07 Fresno State University
Jason Martyn-Claremont '07 UC Riverside
Joe DePinto-St. Francis '07 University of Southern California
Maverick Olivares-Bishop Amat'07 UC Irvine
Benji Anaya-Bellflower '07 UC Irvine
Evan Simonitsch-St. Francis '07 Loyola Marymount University
Reggie Williams-Bellflower '07 Cal State Fullerton/Minnesota Twins
Eddie McKiernen-Monrovia'07 University of Nevada Las Vegas/Anahiem Angels
Elliot Glynn-LB Wilson '07 University of Connecticut/Tampa Bay Devil Rays
Ricky Rossman-Claremont '07 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo/Florida Marlins
Joe Park-Gahr '07 Cal State Los Angeles
Donny Williams-Hart '07 College of the Canyons
A.J. Rodriguez-Gahr '07 Cerritos College
Pat Radford-LB Wilson '07 Cerritos Colleges
Richard Hanson-LB Wilson '07 Cypress College

2005/'06

Richard Johnson-Covina '05 University of LaVerne
Chris Fung-Hoover '05 UC Irvine
Christian Bergman-St. Francis '06 UC Irvine
Nick Farinacci-Agoura '06 UC Irvine
Danny Garcia-Nogales '06 Florida Marlins A
Mike Hur-Valencia '06 UC Riverside
Adam Melker-Claremont '06 Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
Javier Ochoa-Chino '06 Azusa Pacific University
Justin Shults-Valencia '06 UC Riverside
David Contreras-Bishop Amat '06 University of LaVerne
Jerry Pena-Los Altos '06 Cerritos College
Kevin Mort-South Hills '06 Rio Hondo College/Ole Miss
Taylor Smale-St. Francis '06 Glendale College
John Ortega-Downey'06 Cerritos College
George Sanchez-Gahr'06 Cerritos College
Miguel Flores-St. John Bosco'06 Cerritos College/SD Padres
Anthony Topete-Norwalk'06 Cerritos College
Mario Romero-Los Altos '06 Cerritos College