The ‘Mini-Bombs’ Blowing Up the Elbows of Baseball’s Top Pitchers

Re:The ‘Mini-Bombs’ Blowing Up the Elbows of Baseball’s Top ... by soared on Friday September 22, 2023 @08:41AM (#37611242)

Pitch clock and similar rules are not coming to little league, that’s absurd. The pitch clock was implemented because pro games take 3+ hours. Children’s games don’t have time/clock issues, and kids don’t even start pitching their own games until they are 11ish.

Youth baseball is completely different than pros - kids throw way fewer pitches way less frequently. With the exception of extreme high school/college coaches, but those coaches will be extreme regardless.

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Re:The ‘Mini-Bombs’ Blowing Up the Elbows of Baseball’s Top ... by Loughla on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:15AM (#37611621)

>kids throw way fewer pitches way less frequently.

I would like to push back on that a little. It is very common (again, anecdotally at least with the 16 K-12 districts I work with regularly) for kids to be on multiple teams. They'll do a summer league, fall/winter/spring weekend league and weeknight league. It is not uncommon for kids to be on 2 teams through the school year, and 3 in the summer. So, while there are rules around how many innings one kid can pitch, and how many pitches they can throw, there is no governing board to oversee that. It's all honor system; parents are in control of that. It tends to be more flexible than the rules actually intend.

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Re:The ‘Mini-Bombs’ Blowing Up the Elbows of Baseball’s Top ... by iambateman on Friday September 22, 2023 @11:22AM (#37613234)

It’s not insane for high school at all.

The logic goes “we need to get these kids ready for college, so they’re used to it.”

It’s certainly plausible.

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