The Saipan Major League Baseball Association is eyeing to open the 2012 season on March 26 at the Francisco \u201cTan Ko\u201d Palacios Ballfield.<\/p>\n
So far, the league has attracted five teams, including last season’s runner-up Brewers, Fielders, Masters, D-9ers, and newcomer Gagu.<\/p>\n
The SML has traditionally started each new season with a rematch of the past year’s final series, however they are prepared to make adjustments in the case of the defending champion Angels not being able to suit up.<\/p>\n
The format of the game schedule is still being determined. Organizers are hoping to field six teams in a double round-robin format. Organizers are also tentatively utilizing a page system playoff format. The league is in need of corporate sponsors in order to expand the regular and post season arrangements.<\/p>\n
Upon release of the official schedule, teams are required to submit their preliminary rosters prior to their first game.<\/p>\n
Games will be scheduled on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays excluding austerity days.<\/p>\n
An organizational meeting was held Tuesday where roster and waiver forms were circulated.<\/p>\n
Entry fee is $800 per team and checks are to be made payable to the SMLBA.<\/p>\n
Contact SML’s Tony Rogolifoi at 288-5426, 287-1129 or 785-0823 for more information. (PR)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Saipan Major League Baseball Association is eyeing to open the 2012 season on March…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}