January 17, 2019
Hope everyone is having a good end of the year and are looking forward to the 2019 season. Jerry Fick and I have been putting together the information for both programs and we want to make sure that everyone is getting the proper information with as much lead-time as possible.
I have elected to send this information out in blast form so that you can mark you calendars for the meeting dates along with the clinics. The rulebooks, casebook and new Blue Book will be coming your way shortly.
1. Meeting Attendance
The state meeting will be available both online and in person. There will be eight in person meetings. Each meeting will feature sessions of about two and a half hours and in addition to the state meeting will review the most important items that we want to cover prior to the season. By attending the entire session, you will receive credit for a local meeting in addition to the state baseball meeting. There is no need to “pre-register” for any face-to-face State meetings, it is purely optional. The schedule is listed below with all meetings starting at 6PM.
Monday, January 28 – Zanesville – High School – 1701 Blue Ave
Tuesday, January 29 – Columbus – OHSAA Office – 4080 Roselea Place
Wednesday, February 6 – Monroe – High School - 220 Yankee Rd.
Thursday, February 7 – Cleveland - Garfield Heights High School – 4900 Turney Rd.
Tuesday, February 12 – Findlay – Donnell Middle School – 301 Baldwin Ave.
Thursday, February 14 – Canton – McKinley High School – 2323 17th St. NW
Tuesday, February 19 – Piqua – Upper Valley Career Center – 8811 Career Dr.
Thursday, February 21 – Jackson – High School – 500 Vaughn St.
The online meeting for softball will be available January 30. The last day on which an online rules meeting may be viewed without penalty will be Thursday, March 21. The meeting will be accessible with a $50 late fee until Monday, April 22. To access the meeting, log in to your myOHSAA profile and click the “Rules Meetings” icon in the top right, then click “Find a State Meeting” from the left side menu, then select “Softball” from the “Sports” dropdown menu, “Official” from “Meeting Type” dropdown menu, and then click “Search”. This search will display the online meeting option as well as any face-to-face meeting options. You may view the online meeting on any device except for a Google Chromebook. A Google Chromebook is a type of laptop computer, entirely different from the popular internet browser Google Chrome. You may view the online meetings using the internet browser Google Chrome.
2. Mechanics Clinics
The OHSAA will again sponsor Baseball Mechanics Clinics. For Registration Information – see below, visit the OHSAA website, Directors of Officiating Development page in my Baseball section. Or you use this link: https://www.ohsaa.org/Officiating/DOD
New for 2019 - Attendees will also receive three points added to their tournament selection score.
3. Rules Testing
For the 2019 season the OHSAA will again offer rules testing for baseball umpires. Umpires who complete the rules test successfully will receive additional point credit for their 2019 tournament officials rating as follows:
94% and above – 3 points
86% - 92% - 2 points
80-84% - 1 point
New for 2019 - Umpires working the state tournament, effective 2020, must receive a test score of at least 80% in the previous season. The 2019 test applies to 2020 tournaments. This test will be available by mid-February and will have a mid-March deadline. Additional details will be sent to you when the test is available online.
Dan McGinnis
Director of Baseball Development
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