SKILL LEVEL

If you were to judge our record you would think that I had eaten some exotic mushrooms and I was seeing purple lizards on the wall. However, you cannot look at things the way we in America normally break games down. Let me set your expectation level first. This team should not and could not compete on any advanced level of baseball. Baseball in China is a very low level priority sport, period. We do not have any prospects to speak of, just a couple of token players in the minor leagues that teams can say that they have a Chinese player on their roster. Only one of those players may eventually get out of A Ball. The Major League Scouting Bureau (MLSB) has scouted this team for the last five years. I was not involved during that time so I can only relay information given to me by the MLSB. This team originally was at a LOW LEVEL HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR VARSITY SKILLS LEVEL. They couldn’t hit, run, catch and pitch at the level we grow up seeing at our high schools. I had two pitchers on the final Olympic roster that would have been cut by our local high schools. It was said to me that we couldn’t catch a routine pop up; this I did witness with extreme astonishment. Our pitchers were afraid to throw the ball over the plate for fear that it would be hit out of the park…..and they were. When you throw 77-82 MPH I can understand their fear. Now that you understand where it is from which we started, you might be able to glimpse my assessment of a perfect ten.