South Texas Premier Baseball League

The STPBL exists to provide the best summer league experience for the best professional prospects from colleges throughout the country. The STPBL will allow those players with eligibility remaining to showcase and improve their skills in a wholesome, minor league-type atmosphere using wooden bats. The league is committed to providing quality, baseball experience and coaching in an intimate atmosphere that is distinctively Texan, while helping promote the game of baseball in the communities involved.

With great facilities, coaches, housing and a development program designed by former professional players, the STPBL offers an outstanding opportunity for collegiate players to continue to develop their skills and gain valuable playing experience after their collegiate season has ended. Our outstanding coaching staff has decades of experience helping students/athletes get the most out of their summer baseball experience.

College summer leagues have played an instrumental role in many current and former professional baseball players’ careers, providing them with the opportunity to improve their skills and understanding of the game while gaining invaluable experience that helped with their collegiate and professional careers.

WHAT WE ARE.  The South Texas Premier Baseball League is a top summer collegiate wood bat baseball league. The purpose of the league is to: (a) Provide family friendly, affordable baseball entertainment in the communities where our teams are located; (b) Provide a summer baseball program for eligible college players to give them experience using a wood bat in a competitive atmosphere; (c) Provide a venue to allow MLB Scouts to watch collegiate prospects using wood bats against live pitching in competition.

PLAYING SCHEDULE. The 2022 South Texas Premier Baseball League is 30 games starting June 1 and ends with the STPBL League Championship Series during over the final week and ending on June 30.

TOURNAMENT. The first half winners in each division will host the second half winners in a one-game divisional championship round. (If the same team wins both halves, the team with the next-best second-half record makes the playoffs). Division winners in the East Conference will play a one-game conference championship round, as will the division winners from the West Conference. The East Conference Champion and the West Conference Champion will meet in a best-of-three South Texas Premier Baseball League Championship Series. The team with the better overall record decided whether to host game one or games two and three.

For players to participate in the postseason, they must be on the 30-man active roster at the end of the regular season and must have played or pitched in a regular-season game prior to the final 10 days of the regular season.

PLAYER PROCUREMENT.  The South Texas Premier Baseball League has a program of information gathering and promotion to go along with the coach’s own contacts and word-of-mouth in order to attract the best possible professional prospects. We promote the league nationally, through a network of coaches, players and scouts. promotion through this web site, and recommendations from college coaches. The final decision on players rests with the teams themselves. If you want to play in the STPBL, go to our HOME or CONTACT US link on the navigation bar and click on the Player Information link. Be as complete as possible and when you submit the form, it immediately goes to each Field Manager and Team.

HOUSING. Housing information will be provided upon request.

PLAYING FIELD. (To be named)

UMPIRES. The STPBL contracts with a professional assignor who schedules umpires for all games. The STPBL plays by NCAA rules, with a few exceptions. We adhere to all recruiting and eligibility rules of the NCAA as well as numerous other sections of NCAA rules.  

ROSTERS. The STPBL roster is limited to 30 players. By NCAA regulation, no NCAA players may play on a team in the summer in which coaches from their school are associated.  A Player must have been enrolled in the spring term prior to the summer season, and must still have college eligibility. Additionally, each team is allowed players in each new special class: up to two (4) Graduated High School Seniors (must submit signed LOI to play baseball in college for the following season) and up to four (6) Graduated College Seniors.

INSURANCE.  Players must have and maintain their own health insurance, either as a part of their family's plan or an individual plan. The player will be required to give the insurance company name and the policy number when he fills out the contract form offered to him by one of the South Texas Premier Baseball League's teams. The STPBL does not carry secondary insurance on any player.

COMMUNICATIONS. League meetings are scheduled three times per year. The League office maintains communications through regular news releases, a continuous flow of telephone conversations, conference calls, emails, letters and memos between the league office and league officials.

SUPPORT. Each club has a management structure to take care of the operational aspects of each member club. The leadership is normally a team General Manager with the assistance of team ownership. Staffing varies widely, depending on the size of the market and the scope of the operation. The field manager and coaching staffs are separate positions. The league requires that an official scorer/game reporter be available at all home games to keep score, transmit information to the newspapers after the game and file a detailed statistics report for each game to the league office and the league's official statistician.

PUBLIC RELATIONS/INFORMATION. The South Texas Premier Baseball League office maintains this web site on a daily basis to communicate game results, standings, statistics and other notes of interest for the benefit of the newspapers, fans and professional scouts that follow our players and teams. The League uses Game Changer as the official statistician for the STPBL. Live game stats are available for all league games, as well as a wide array of statistics for the serious fan.

COMMUNITY. The STPBL can help any college and its athletic department achieve community service goals. The STPBL gives fans a team to watch and support during the summer months when there’s a gap between regular college sports seasons. The STPBL brings trade to a community—families, friends and scouts come from all over to see their favorites. It also gives the college and community recognition outside the community in other cities and towns, plus the word-of-mouth recognition which comes from student-athletes returning to their own hometowns and campuses to talk of their experiences.

COLLEGE. The South Texas Premier Baseball League brings college and community leaders together in a working relationship built around baseball. Where a college facility is used for the Prospect League season, It brings people onto the college campuses to use college facilities during "non-peak" seasons. The STPBL brings about a greater awareness of the college on other campuses. It can directly aid in recruitment of future students because siblings and friends of the players learn about the college and its community.

BASEBALL PEOPLE. The South Texas Premier Baseball League’s new commitment to growth and strength is based upon the interest and skills of college baseball coaches and administrators—people who know talent and know the business of putting a team on the field.

LEAGUE RULES. Playing top-level summer collegiate baseball in the South Texas Premier Baseball League is a privilege. As in every aspect of life, this privilege carries many responsibilities.  The exercise of personal responsibility as a member of the STPBL family is important to you as an individual in advancing your baseball career and realizing your full baseball potential. Exercising personal responsibility is also vital to the growth and development of the STPBL within our communities. These communities are enriched and ennobled by the example you set as role models for our kids.  The STPBL cannot attain its goals and fulfill its mission without your full cooperation and commitment to act professionally and responsibly, both on the baseball diamond and in your adopted communities.

Each player for each team in the STPBL is expected to conduct himself, on the field and off the field, in a manner consistent with good behavior and in a manner that does not adversely affect his respective organization’s reputation, or the player’s own integrity, reputation and credibility.  Each player must recognize that he represents, not just his college and university, but also his host family, his summer team, his adopted summer community and the STPBL, and that every action he takes will reflect upon the STPBL.

Without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing statement or any specific rules and regulation otherwise promulgated by the STPBL or the player’s individual team, each player shall be aware of the following principles and at all times comply with them.

• Each player shall comply with the rules and regulations promulgated by the STPBL and the individual team he plays for, both on the field and off the field.  Each team shall have responsibility, in its sole discretion, to discipline a player, to include suspension or dismissal from the team, for conduct it determines is inappropriate, violates any rules or regulations, or is contrary to the league’s expectations set forth in this statement.

• The legal drinking age in State of Texas is 21 years of age, and each player is expected to obey the law.  In addition, under no circumstances shall a player, or any personnel of any STPBL organization, bring alcoholic beverages on a team bus, or bring or have possession of alcoholic beverages at the playing field or supply alcoholic beverages to minors under the age of 21. Players over 21 years of age, who have alcoholic beverages off the field, shall be expected to drink responsibility and at all times conduct themselves in a responsible manner.

• Each player shall recognize that host families make a personal and financial sacrifice to house them as part of their families, and that host families are essential to the operation and success of summer baseball.  Players shall, by their daily conduct and good behavior, honor these special people.  Players must remember that they are a guest in someone else’s home, and to always be considerate and make a special effort to abide by any requests they may make.  If a host family has young children, players must be aware of what their friendship and actions will mean to them.

WAIVER OF LIABILITY. As a player/participant in that certain baseball league known as the South Texas Premier Baseball League (South Texas Premier Baseball League, LLC.) Hereinafter set forth, I hereby agree to assume all risks and dangers incidental to the game of baseball, or any other dangers at such baseball games, practices, or events. Such risks and dangers include, but are not limited to, injuries by thrown balls, bats, equipment, or sliding, running or physical contact indigenous to the games guidelines, rules, or regulations, or any other dangers at such baseball games, practices, or events. I hereby agree that the South Texas Premier Baseball League (South Texas Premier Baseball League, LLC.), its agents, promoters, officials, sponsors, officers, panels, and board of directors, are not liable for any injuries resulting from the causes outlined herein above, any and all other injuries incidental to the game of baseball, or any other dangers at such baseball games, practices, or events. I further acknowledge that the league does not maintain or provide insurance coverage for damage to the players/participants/spectators property; whether owned, borrowed, or hired, and that each player/participant is responsible for his or her own insurance and safety.