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Muck FcDisney wrote:FSUKW wrote:Muck FcDisney wrote:FSUKW wrote:1). Any coach or dad who lets their kid throw 200 pitches in a day should go to jail.
2). Baseball is not in decline in Florida. Matter of fact it's too watered down.
1.) A complete (7 inning) game with a lot of deep counts, pregame warmups, and warmup pitches between innings is pretty close. I never had any arm problems until after I quit playing. A good throwing motion (i.e.- not throwing "all arm") helps reduce a lot of the strain. And prior to HS, most kids don't have the muscle development to put all that much strain on the arm. You tend to heal a lot faster at that age as well. Do you make your kids play flag football?
2.) Blasphemy! You are no longer welcome here. [insert delusions, non sequiturs, and other nonsense]
200 total is a tad bit high even including warm ups. I coach travel ball. (14U) A kid would not last 3 months doing that. Our tournaments (USSSA, AAU, CFBL and Perfect Game) all have daily and weekend inning limits. Usually 6 in a day but if you pitch more than 4 in a day you are done for the next day and no more than 9 for the weekend.
As travel and high school feeder league go.
20 pre-game
5 to 7 between innings.
75 to 85 max per game
Maybe different in high school.
You only need to pitch a whole game in semis or championship game. Most teams have 7 to 9 pitchers.
Things have changed over the last 25 years. I see pussification is not exclusive to football.
Pitch limits make far more sense than inning limits. It's tough to justify 21 pitches in 7 innings (hypothetically, of course) being worse than 100 in 3-2/3. 20 pregame warmup pitches is really low, too.
Are teams bigger now? My HS team had 7-9, but I'd say it was more like 4 starters and 2 relievers when I was younger.
I didn't like AAU. Played most of my ball at East Cobb.
I seem to recall inning limits (or at least starts limits) in some tournaments. Time limits were the worst though. Team up by 1 with little time left?: 4 pitch walk, 3 pick off attempts, ball 1, 3 more pick off attempts, ball 2, mound visit... I'm sure you're familiar with this bs.
FSUKW wrote:ericberry14 wrote:When I played you couldn't pitch on back to back days or in 2 games in the same day. As a starter. I only came in as a reliever once in my life because I could not make the beginning of the game lol
It was one of my favorite baseball moments though cuz I got there he had me warm up and I came in for the bottom of the last inning and struck out all 3 batters to end the game. :rock
If you played little league (I am not insinuating you did), you lived by a "days rest schedule" depending on how many pitches you threw.
John Rocker FTW!!!!!
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