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| KoopsDad |
Posted - 02/25/2010 : 11:23:53
To those who have played already, what has been your coaches approach regarding the amount of time a kid was on the mound? Have they cut off at a set amount of pitches, number of innings, or treated them like mid season and pitch until they complain? Just curious. I have concerns going into the weekend with as little work as we have been able to do this year (compared to in the past)that the kids are going to be more succeptible to arm injuries. Anyone have kids come away with sore arms already that are having to be rested? If so, were they thought to be ready and how much did they throw in developing the sore arm? When you are being competitive, it is easy to want to let a kid throw as long as he is doing well, but IMO, you have to look at the big picture (long season) even if it hurts your chances of winning. |
| 6 L A T E S T R E P L I E S (Newest First) |
| BatChipper |
Posted - 02/25/2010 : 16:19:32
Played 3 games last weekend and had 9 different kids pitch for us. We won our first then lost the other two. Coach had a 30 pitch limit for us. |
| k_coach |
Posted - 02/25/2010 : 15:25:06
We played 3 games this past weekend and tried to keep our pitchers under 40 pitches (I think one kid went to 43). To do this, we had to use 7 pitchers, so I am not sure how you would get through a 5 or 6 game tournament right now. I did see a couple of teams who went way over this (I am guessing 80pitches). If you do it the right way (low pitch counts early in the season), it takes a lot of strategy and many pitchers to compete and win in early season tournaments. |
| SSBuckeye |
Posted - 02/25/2010 : 12:49:11
We played 3 games last weekend and I pitched 7 boys in those games, none more than 3 innings. Would have been 8 kids, but one is out hurt. Our goal is to develop pitching depth, so we can play deep into tournaments later in the year without jeopardizing the arms of our boys. Some teams I saw were pitching the same kids repeatedly, which is certainly their right. I don't look at innings, but pitch count. No kid can throw more than 70 pitches in a game. Once they get to 65-70, they can't pitch the next day. We are a 10u team. The tournament we played in allowed 9 innings over 3 days. If any coach did that, they should be removed from the sport unless that kid had a lot of 8 pitch innings, but that is merely my view. |
| dgersh22 |
Posted - 02/25/2010 : 12:40:05
We have had the opportunity to play one game and in that one game we threw 6 different pitchers and won 4-3. This weekend we play our first tournament and will probably try to limit our starters to no more then 35-50 pitches depending on how much they have been throwing and how they look. Now is not the time for sore arms, it's a long season!!! |
| bmoser |
Posted - 02/25/2010 : 11:52:53
In our scrimmages, pitchers went only 1 or 2 innings, and I don't think anyone threw more than 30 pitches. It was mostly a new pitcher nearly every inning. I think my son threw 22 his 1st scrimmage, then only 9 his next. I don't know of any arm pain issues on our team thus far after our three complete 6-inning scrimmages. We have 6 pitchers, and even let a non-pitcher take an inning. Got to ease into this. I don't want to see my son throwing more than 2 innings, or 40 pitches until April. I'd rather lose if that's what it came down to. |
| BBall123 |
Posted - 02/25/2010 : 11:45:17
2 innings or a 50 pitch max, still to cold and to early to push it. quote:
Originally posted by KoopsDad
To those who have played already, what has been your coaches approach regarding the amount of time a kid was on the mound? Have they cut off at a set amount of pitches, number of innings, or treated them like mid season and pitch until they complain? Just curious. I have concerns going into the weekend with as little work as we have been able to do this year (compared to in the past)that the kids are going to be more succeptible to arm injuries. Anyone have kids come away with sore arms already that are having to be rested? If so, were they thought to be ready and how much did they throw in developing the sore arm? When you are being competitive, it is easy to want to let a kid throw as long as he is doing well, but IMO, you have to look at the big picture (long season) even if it hurts your chances of winning.
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