You've reached the home of Deerfield Warriors travel baseball.  We're proud to be a community based travel baseball organization that is operated by the Deerfield Youth Baseball Association (DYBA).

We have travel baseball teams from 8U through 14U.

We are a true community based team as all of our travel players live within the Deerfield High School border lines.  We believe coming together as a community and focusing on the development of our players as both young men and young baseball players is our main focus.  Our coaches have nearly 100 combined years of Deerfield travel baseball coaching experience.  This is led by our mentor coach, Dan Mayer.  Dan was a baseball coach at Deerfield High School for more than 20 years, he also consults on our travel baseball program, runs the tryouts, independently picks the travel baseball teams, and helps train our other travel baseball coaches. We're also proud that our coaching staff has included numerous high school coaches as well as many former Deerfield travel baseball players serving as managers and assistant coaches.  We believe the former players who come back to coach are important role models to the young men in our program.

From the links on the left of this page you can access more information about our individual teams, their schedules, their contact information, and other fun events the teams are participating in.

Deerfield Youth Baseball Association

Deerfield Travel Baseball - Tryouts 2022 Season

Register players online at: http://www.dyba.siplay.com/site/

Deposit: A deposit of $300 is required in order for players to try out for travel baseball.  This deposit is refundable for any players who are not selected for a team.

AGE/DATES*                          TIME                           LOCATION

14U

Sat, 8/21                                  4:30-6:30pm                Clavey 1

Sun, 8/22                                 6:30-8:30pm                Clavey 1

13U

Sat, 8/21                                  2:15-4:15pm                Clavey 1

Sun, 8/22                                 4:15-6:15pm                Clavey 1

12U

Sat, 8/21                                  12-2pm                         Clavey 3

Sun, 8/22                                 2-4pm                           Clavey 3

11U

Sat, 8/28                                  10:00-12:00pm                Clavey 3

Sun, 8/29                                 6:30-8:30pm                Clavey 3

10U

Sat, 8/28                                  2:15-4:15pm                Clavey 3

Sun, 8/29                                 4:15-6:15pm                Clavey 3

9U

Sat, 8/28                                  12-2pm                        Clavey 3

Sun, 8/29                                 2-4pm                          Clavey 3

RAINOUT DATES/Make up (if necessary)

Day      Date    Tome              Age Group                  Location

Mon     8/23     6-10pm            For 12u-14u                 TBD

Mon     8/30     6-10pm            For 9u-11u                   TBD

*Dates/times and Location are subject to change.  Any changes will be communicated promptly

Eligibility requirements:

Residence:  Players must be eligible to attend either Deerfield School District 109 or Bannockburn School District 106 or reside in the "option area" of Highland Park as designated by High School District 113 (i.e. west of Route 41). 

Age: Travel baseball is age-based, not grade based. The birth date cutoff for each age group is April 30. The teams will be composed of players who are the stated age (or younger) on April 30, 2022. For example, to be eligible for 9U, a player must not turn 10 prior to May 1, 2022; to be eligible for 10U, a player must not turn 11 before May 1, 2022, etc.

Numbers of Players/Teams:

No set limits on numbers of teams: There are no set limits on the number of teams rostered at each age-group. The number of teams for each age-group will depend on interest, skill levels, and other factors. For 9U-14U, teams will be rostered based on skill levels, with the top players placed on the red team, the next group on the gray team, etc. All teams rostered at 12U will participate in a Cooperstown tournament for an additional fee.

No set limits on numbers of players: Typically, DYBA rosters travel baseball teams of 12 players. However, larger or smaller teams may be rostered after tryouts

Other information:

Fees: These are established by the DYBA board in the fall and range from $1600-$1800 based on yearly specifics.  Details will be provided on fees as soon as they have been approved.

Commitment: By trying out for a DYBA travel team, players are committing to participating on any travel team to which they are selected. If a player withdraws from a travel team after being selected, he will forfeit his deposit and not be allowed to take part in the next set of travel tryouts for the following season. In effect, he will miss two (2) travel seasons before he can try out for a DYBA travel team again. Players can appeal to the DYBA Board of Directors to be considered for early reinstatement.

Closed tryouts: All tryout sessions are closed to spectators.

Deerfield Travel Handbook

For more specific information about the Deerfield Travel Baseball Program please review our travel handbook.  There will be an updated version for the 2022 season with some minimal changes.

Deerfield Travel Baseball Handbook 

2021 DEERFIELD WOODEN BAT BASEBALL TOURNAMENT
JUNE 17-20, 2021
AGES 9U-14U

Tournament will take place FATHER’S DAY WEEKEND, 2021.

•      Games played Thursday, June 17th – Sunday, June 20th

•      3 game pool play guarantee.  

•      $525 tournament fee

This year we are only taking 12 teams at each age group.  These will be mixed A/B brackets.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER NOW ON TOURNEY MACHINE

FOR ALL SCORES, BRACKETS, RULES AND INFORMATION REGARDING THE 2021 WOODEN BAT TOURNAMENT, PLEASE GO TO THE TOURNEYMACHINE LINK ABOVE

You can download the App at Tourneymachine.com

Tournament Director -  Matt Goode

Deerfield Travel Baseball -  2021 Season

Tryouts were completed in the fall of 2020.  

If you are still interested in playing Deerfield travel baseball in 2021, please contact the travel baseball directors at: travel.baseball@dyba.com.  It is possible at certain age groups opportunities might still exist.

Eligibility requirements:

Residence:  Players must be eligible to attend either Deerfield School District 109 or Bannockburn School District 106 or reside in the "option area" of Highland Park as designated by High School District 113 (i.e. west of Route 41). 

Age: Travel baseball is age-based, not grade based. The birth date cutoff for each age group is April 30. The teams will be composed of players who are the stated age (or younger) on April 30, 2021. For example, to be eligible for 9U, a player must not turn 10 prior to May 1, 2021; to be eligible for 10U, a player must not turn 11 before May 1, 2021, etc.