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Youth baseball & softball lineup card builder
Plan every inning before first pitch: set the defensive grid inning by inning, build your batting order, and print a lineup card and field-rotation sheet your whole dugout can follow.
Available today
- • Inning-by-inning defensive position planning for every fielder
- • Batting order with bench tracking, DH/FLEX and courtesy runners
- • Minimum-innings and infield-innings fairness rules with live tallies
- • Printable lineup card, field-rotation sheet and tracking sheet (PDF/CSV)
- • Full roster with jersey numbers, positions and injury flags
- • CSV roster import from your league spreadsheet
Coming next
- • Pitch-count and rest-day guardrails
- • Live in-game scoring against your planned lineup
Positions we include out of the box
Positions are free text, so use whatever your league calls them.
How coaches plan a baseball or softball game in Plays Manager
Planning starts with the defensive grid: innings across the top, your roster down the side. Set each fielder's position inning by inning and the bench fills in around them, so you can see the whole game — who is at shortstop in the fourth, who has been in right field twice in a row, who has not left the dugout yet.
The batting order is built in the same place, with bench tracking, DH and FLEX slots and courtesy runners for the catcher and pitcher. Because the lineup and the defense live together, moving a player in the field never leaves you with a batting order that no longer matches the card you printed.
Fairness rules the planner checks for you
Youth leagues rarely stop at "everyone plays." Many require a minimum number of innings in the field and a minimum number of innings in the infield for every player on the roster. Plays Manager tallies both as you build the grid and flags anyone short before first pitch, which turns a rule that is hard to track in your head into something you can prove.
Injury and availability flags keep the plan honest when a player shows up hurt or misses the game, and the tallies recalculate immediately so you know which innings need a new name.
What you print for the dugout
The lineup card prints with your team logo and coach name, ready to hand to the umpire and the opposing coach. Alongside it, print a field-rotation sheet the players can read themselves — kids find their own name and see where they play each inning, which means far fewer "where am I this inning?" questions and more of your attention on coaching.
An innings tracking sheet rounds out the set for the scorekeeper or the parent helping in the dugout. Everything exports as PDF for printing, or CSV if you keep season records in a spreadsheet.
Roster setup and saved games
Enter the roster once with numbers, positions and availability, or import your league's spreadsheet as CSV. Plans save with an opponent and date, so a doubleheader or the next week's game starts from the rotation you already trust, and a share code lets an assistant coach open the same plan. See everything included or what it costs.
Baseball lineup questions coaches ask
How do I guarantee every player gets two innings in the infield?
Build the defensive grid inning by inning and watch the infield-innings tally next to each name. Anyone below the minimum is flagged while you are still planning, so you swap positions before the game instead of scrambling in the third inning.
Can the players follow the rotation themselves?
Yes — print the field-rotation sheet. Each player finds their own row and reads their position for every inning, so the dugout runs itself between half-innings.
Does it handle DH, FLEX and courtesy runners?
It does. The batting order supports DH and FLEX slots plus courtesy runners, and bench time is tracked alongside innings played so the fairness math stays correct.
Further reading: coaching youth baseball and the 2-inning infield requirement and building a lineup where every kid gets infield innings.