When professional baseball scouts look at a high school or college athletes, they look for five "tools:" hitting for power, hitting for average, speed, fielding ability and arm strength.
Coast to Coast Baseball, an instructional and preparation baseball program, is hosting a tryout event for players 10 to 18 Saturday at Danvers' Strike One, at 199 Newbury St. The tryout will begin at 10 a.m.
Staff will evaluate the players in four areas, as they consolidate hitting for power and average into simple "hitting," fielding, arm strength and speed.
Players accepted into the Coast to Coast program have a chance to represent the USA in competition in Puerto Rico, or work with top college coaches and scouts at one of their Florida or Arizona complexes.
In addition to the tryout, Coast to Coast will host an instructional hitting seminar at 2 p.m. with the goal of improving at-the-plate fundamentals as well as learning more about a mental approach while at bat.
In the last nine years, 2,000 athletes from 46 states have participated in the Coast to Coast program, and the graduates of the program now compete in every level of baseball.
